Your practice insurance portfolio has a huge void without cyber liability coverage.  Also known as data breach insurance, it provides coverage for your office in the event that private, confidential data you possess or maintain is compromised.   MDA Insurance offers the Beazley Brach Response (BBR) Select plan, and for as little as $450 per […]

National statistics show that over 40 million Americans face the burden of student loans. To help ease this debt burden, the Michigan Dental Association has partnered with SoFi to offer our members and their family and friends a 0.125 percent rate discount* upon refinancing their student loans through SoFi.com/MIDental. SoFi is the market leader of […]

Staples Advantage now has a new invaluable resource center including case studies, blogs, videos, white papers, and other essential tips to help make your practice even more successful and efficient. Visit the resource center at hub.staplesadvantage.com/h/ to learn everything from the must-haves for handling office emergencies, the best smart-tech tips, and ways to kick-start your […]

If your practice likes Crosstex® masks, prophy paste and imaging comfort solutions and other products, but prefers to buy them by the box rather than by the case, there’s great news! Your MDA Services Gloves & Supplies program is now able to offer you smaller quantities of many of these world-class Crosstex products to make […]

Building a sleek and engaging website for your practice won’t mean anything if you don’t pay attention to its performance. The only way to determine if your online marketing strategy is paying off is to look at your performance data. From there, you can enhance what’s working well and change what’s not working at all. […]

Summer is just around the corner and soon it will be time to break out the boats, jet skis, four-wheelers and all the other toys of summer. You’ll enjoy them to the fullest if you know they are properly insured. In most cases, you don’t need to purchase individual policies for your summer toys. You […]

According to an Accenture forecast, by 2019, 66 percent of health systems will offer patient self-scheduling, and 64 percent of patients will choose this option as a way to book their appointments.  In today’s competitive marketplace, not offering your patients the option to book online might send them to your competitors. A 2015 survey conducted […]

The following information from the MDA-endorsed Eagle Associates provides a brief roadmap to achieving HIPAA compliance, and is intended to help you understand the need to do more than employee training in order to avoid enforcement action from regulatory agencies. Here are the basic major elements for ensuring compliance with regulations: Written Policies – Regulations, […]

According to the American Bar Association, in light of significant employment law changes from 2014 to 2016,  liability risks are projected to grow over the next few years—making employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) policies all the more consequential. As noted in a recent report, lawsuits against employers related to their employment practices have been on […]

The following information from the MDA-endorsed Eagle Associates provides a brief roadmap to achieving HIPAA compliance, and is intended to help you understand the need to do more than employee training in order to avoid enforcement action from regulatory agencies. Here are the basic major elements for ensuring compliance with regulations: Written Policies – Regulations, […]