The dentistry is the joy. The lease renewals, the payroll runs, the HR fires are the theft. Bluetree takes those back.
You know what you're trying to get back. Tell us what that looks like.
What matters most to you...The parts of ownership that stole your nights. All of them. Handled by people whose full-time job it is to handle them.
"I was staying 4 to 5 hours after office hours to complete all of these duties, going in on Saturdays and Sundays. I now have the ability to sleep at night. After 12 years in practice, I may be able to take a vacation or two."
Mat Stewart, DDS · Aland Family Dentistry
Ask a practice owner where their evenings go and the answer is usually the same: payroll, lease renewals, insurance carrier calls, vendor negotiations, staff issues, marketing decisions, IT problems, compliance filings. The clinical day ends at 5. The business day starts after that and runs into the night, plus weekends.
For a lot of dentists, that is the actual cost of ownership. Not the buy-in. Not the loans. The 4 to 5 hours after office hours and the Saturdays and Sundays you spend doing the work that has nothing to do with dentistry.
The Bluetree model exists specifically to solve that. When you partner with us, the back-office burden lifts off you and onto the central support team. Billing, accounting, IT, HR, compliance, group purchasing, all of it. The evenings you used to spend on payroll and lease renewals go back to your family. What you keep is the clinical side of practice, plus real ownership in a growing group.
The daily and weekly reality of the transition, in plain terms.
Billing, accounting, IT, HR, compliance, group purchasing, marketing, vendor management, insurance carrier relationships, lease negotiations. All of it moves to the central support team.
No. HR and payroll administration move to the central team. Your team's benefits become part of the group program. You still lead your team clinically and culturally. You do not process their W-2s.
Most owner-partners cut their working hours significantly after joining. Many move from 60+ hour weeks to a 3 or 4-day clinical schedule. The exact number is up to you.
No. Local hiring decisions stay with the local practice leadership. The central team handles the paperwork, benefits enrollment, and compliance. You choose who works with you.
Central support is designed around common functions. Practice-specific needs are handled through local operational partners. If something does not fit the standard model, we build around it, not against it.