{"id":1161,"date":"2018-07-09T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:17:21","slug":"the-real-reason-patients-use-the-money-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalsuccesstoday.com\/blog\/the-real-reason-patients-use-the-money-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Patients Use The Money Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have probably heard the saying, \u201cA confused customer never buys.\u201d\u00a0 Technically, someone isn\u2019t a \u2018customer\u2019 until they buy just like you don\u2019t really have a patient when they just come in and visit.\u00a0 They have to actually do something.\u00a0 Exam, cleaning, ideally dentistry.<\/p>\n<p>Just coming in and going through the motions doesn\u2019t make them a patient.\u00a0 That\u2019s why so many practices lose because they judge success by going through the motions not actually accomplishing anything with their patients.<\/p>\n<p>If you change what you expect the outcome to be and align your actions in a way that they are focused on creating those outcomes you will then have a new outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to last week and our discussion about money and patients using it as the reason for saying no.<\/p>\n<p>If the outcome we desire is to diagnosis, present treatment, let the patients decide and then send them back out into the world, we are going to get a lot of price resistance, fee objections and overall money excuses because we haven\u2019t made the patients want the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>We have just taken them through the steps, presented the treatment as a matter of fact and then we\u2019ve let money become the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not they will proceed with the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing to know\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patients, like all people buying anything, have really made up their minds the majority of the time BEFORE they get to the end of the buying process.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, some people go certain places to \u2018shop around\u2019 instead of buy.\u00a0 But there isn\u2019t much to \u2018shop around\u2019 at your practice \u2013 they don\u2019t come to browse, they come to fix a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, if between the walking in and the walking out, the only excuse a patient gives us is money you can bet that it\u2019s a cover for some other reason, experience or communication they had during this visit.<\/p>\n<p>They simply aren\u2019t convinced this is the right thing for them.\u00a0 That the benefit of the treatment or the consequence of doing nothing is not worth more to them than the money they are going to pay.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of people who actually do not have any money or access to resources is so small you shouldn\u2019t let it get in your way or even think about it.\u00a0 Remember, first begin with your expectation that you are going to help the patient and they are going to pay.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does happen?\u00a0 Why don\u2019t more patients say yes?<\/p>\n<p>They are confused, they lack clarity, they weren\u2019t compelled or they were unsold during your experience.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, they lack a firm, committed and clear clinical yes.\u00a0 If patients use money as the excuse, they do not see the value and therefore they have no commitment to the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of clarity and creation of confusion can come from many things.\u00a0 It happens when patients aren\u2019t really made a part of the process.\u00a0 It happens when you talk over their heads.\u00a0 It happens when you only talk with each other and you do not dialogue enough with them directly.<\/p>\n<p>If all you did was commit to making sure that every patient is crystal clear and completely committed to the treatment, solution or next step BEFORE they exit the operatory, you will be setting up your team member for success who is going to handle the money and the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like you to critique each other on this and even backtrack on a few patients lately who everyone thought were all in but they did not follow through.\u00a0 Then assess what you can do.\u00a0 Really look at this for every aspect of the practice and come up with some protocols that keeps everyone on the same page (especially the patient), when it comes to their clinical agreement (yes) in the back before moving up front.<\/p>\n<p>This is more than just the triangle.\u00a0 This is common sense and awareness over what the patient is really thinking.<\/p>\n<p>One key thing to starting doing more of is: ASKING THEM!<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine?\u00a0 We talk about communication all the time with you and your team members.\u00a0 How about improving communication effectiveness with your patients.<\/p>\n<p>More questions.\u00a0 More listening.\u00a0 More asking.\u00a0 More engaging.\u00a0 More awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Another way confusion is so often created and messes up clinical yeses is by giving treatment options\u2026 that is one certain way to drive patients to make a money based decision which is the exact thing we are trying to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are way above the basic mistake of giving treatment options to patients and you think you are very advanced in what you do there is a common flaw that nearly every doctor makes when discussing treatment with patients.\u00a0 If it\u2019s fixed BEFORE any treatment or money is discussed it will, with almost 100% certainty, result in removing the money objection entirely from the treatment decision.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll go there next week.\u00a0 And we\u2019ll keep at this until every team member has been broken of any bad habits that set patients up to \u2018make it about the money\u2019 even though we know better.<\/p>\n<p>When you fix these, you all of the sudden make your success much easier, less of a fight and you will have more fun everyday with patients because you won\u2019t 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