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The Dental Practice Data Room: What to Build, How to Structure It, and Why Starting 5 Years Early Changes Your Multiple
Most sellers assemble data rooms in 60 days. Here's the forensic-grade folder structure PE buyers actually expect — and why building it early changes your multiple.
The Algorithmic Denial Machine: How Payer AI Is Weaponizing Your Radiographs
Insurance payers are deploying pixel-level AI to deny claims at scale. The same weaponization PE firms use during QoE is coming to every claim you submit.
The Data Room Nobody Builds: What Buyers See That Sellers Never Prepare
A QoE team spends 30 days dismantling the story you spent 30 years building. Sellers who pre-audit their data room dictate the terms of their exit.
The Silent Margin Collapse: Clinical Judgment as Enterprise Value Destruction
A single D4910-to-D1110 downgrade costs $70. Repeated daily across 3 locations, it erases $504,000 in enterprise value at a 6x multiple.
The Due Diligence Ambush: How PE Weaponizes Your Data to Hijack Your Exit
Private Equity QoE teams extract raw PMS data to systematically dismantle your EBITDA. A $3M group lost $13.8M in enterprise value to unsanitized data.
Eyes Wide Open: What I Wish Every Dentist Knew Before Signing a DSO Contract
DSO contracts are built to maximize platform EBITDA, not doctor compensation. Realization rate traps, capitation true-ups, and non-competes explained.
EBITDA Laundering: The Clinical Blind Spot in Dental M&A
The EBITDA Laundering blind spot in dental M&A: how compliant-looking revenue masks clinical fraud that survives standard due diligence.
The EBITDA Illusion: Why DSOs Buy You at 5x and Trade at 14x (And How to Keep the Difference)
Why dental DSOs trade at 14x while acquirers pay 5x — understand the Multiple Arbitrage mechanism that transfers wealth from practices to PE.