It may be a fire, flood, theft, willful destruction or an unexpected car through your front window! A bit of advance planning will go a long way to help reduce your stress when a disaster destroys or leaves your dental practice out of commission for days, weeks or even longer. Make a list – be…
The Perception of Detection Imagine you are in a hurry and driving much faster than usual. You’re late for an important event that cannot start without you. Suddenly, there’s you see this guy holding up a sign with the words “COPS AHEAD” in big letters. Does your foot instinctively ease off the gas pedal? You…
I wrote this article back in 2012 – the same principles hold true today. IT’S A FACT: Changes in employee behavior is often the first sign that something is wrong. This article discusses some the common behavioral red-flags to watch out for. “You can check to see if there are any red-flags in your practice…
I just spied a TeamViewer icon on the desktop of another dental practice computer. I checked to see if the TeamViewer program was registered to a company or person; it was not. It was simply downloaded from the Internet and then installed. I checked the TeamViewer logs and discovered was recently used. TeamViewer is just…
The purpose of this 5-minute Dental FraudBuster is to ensure that you have offsite copies of essential reports in the event you need them for auditing or emergency purposes. Each working day you should obtain copies of the reports below from your dental software. These reports can be printed on paper or saved as a…
Dental embezzlement will spike for the at least the next 6 months. That’s a sobering thought; considering that before the pandemic, embezzlement was already big problem for dentists. In fact, the most recent ADA survey showed that HALF of dentists reported embezzlement Back in March, I made a post titled “An embezzler’s response to COVID-19“….
This was one of the methods used to to steal from the dental practice. Each month, check your Amazon account and confirm that all of the purchases were legitimate, and for your practice. Do not use your personal Amazon account to make purchases for your business. Set up a business account and keep those expenses…
These are the key ingredients for embezzlement
Want to know if someone has been up to no good while using your computer? Bill can help.