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LPS completed almost $200 million in Invisible Dental Support Organization (IDSO) partnerships in Q3 for our dental practice clients. Many of these set new record values. With over $5.0 billion of new financing provided to new and recapitalized IDSOs in just the first half of 2024, there are multiple qualified bidders eager to become your silent partner at high values. Note that over $150 million of LPS/IDSO partnerships in the last 24 months were for doctors in their 30s.

And while short-term values are high, more importantly, the largest IDSO in the U.S. just completed its third recapitalization in seven years at a value approaching $4.0 billion. Over 50 very happy LPS doctor clients, who we partnered with this IDSO achieved impressive returns on their retained ownership, with some exceeding 500%.

The political winds are blowing in favor of more IDSO partnerships in 2025. With multiple qualified bidders in an LPS advised process, larger practices should understand their value today.

Now that the election is over, there will be definitive impacts on your practice. In this after-election webinar we will discuss insights into what the next four years will look like for dentistry and practice values. There will be changes!

Join us to understand the following election impacts on your practice value for the coming years:

• Coming Tax Changes Will Impact Your Net Proceeds in an IDSO Partnership.
• The FTC and Justice Department Investigation Impact on IDSO Capital.
• Medicaid Makes Less or More Sense for Dentists.
• The Cultural Impact on Your Practice of Our New President
• 2025 Practice Values; Up or Down?
• The Specialty That Will Boom Under the New Administration.

Your practice is probably one of your biggest personal assets. Its net, after tax value to you and your family may change in 2025 and beyond. Every doctor should understand the value of their practice today and how to increase it.

Join us for a fast paced 59-minute webinar when we will outline our view on the changes coming to Invisible Dental Support Organizations (IDSO) in 2025. Planning ahead will add value for IDSO partnerships closing in 2025. LPS advised partnerships in 2024 continued to achieve record values for larger, growing practices. We do not forecast a drop in value in 2025, however certain practice attributes will be more valuable than ever.

Join us to understand the impact of the following on your practice value in 2025:

• AI adoption is accelerating
• Growth rate is more important to value than ever
• OMS continues as the fastest consolidating practice type
• Dental Trifecta IDSOs well capitalized and most eager bidders
• Which IDSOs will complete recapitalizations in 2025 and which will not
• New state and Federal regulations impacting practice consolidation
• New twist on solving value issues for 60+ doctors
• Why IDSOs are offering equity incentives to team members

In July, LPS completed $153+ million of IDSO partnerships for our clients.

Generally in an LPS advised bidding process, practices are valued at between 7.5x EBITDA and 9x EBITDA. However, if you have an exceptional practice with young doctors and growth in 2024, you may achieve a higher value. LPS also gets higher values for our clients when we have multiple clients in a region that choose the same IDSO partner. LPS’ size and insider knowledge add value.

Of the partnerships in July, over $50 million were completed at 11x EBITDA and over $60 million were completed at over 9x EBITDA. Values are still exceptional when you know where to find the right IDSO partner at certain moments in time.

Join us for a fast-paced 61-minute webinar which will outline the practice attributes which achieve the highest values and why.

Topics Will Include:

• Why growth rate is critical
• What are the key owner doctor traits
• Where practices are valued highest (Will surprise you!)
• Who are the new IDSOs and who are their financial sponsors
• The IDSOs with completed and failed recapitalizations. Who and Why?
• The three key practice attributes you must have for maximum value
• New Forecast for 2025 values

Your practice is probably one of your biggest personal assets. Its net, after tax value to you and your family may change in 2025 and beyond. Every doctor should understand the value of their practice today and how to increase it.

Join us for a fast paced, 59-minute webinar to learn about and understand the dramatic differences between an Invisible Dental Support Organization (IDSO) and a DSO. If you have a larger practice, you will partner with an IDSO or compete with many in the coming years. They are probably in your community now; you just don’t know it yet. IDSOs have become very resourceful silent partners to doctors, both GP and all specialties, for over 30 years.

Over $5.0 billion dollars of investments and financing were provided to IDSOs just in the first half of 2024. Smart money seems to like IDSOs better than DSOs. You will too once you understand them. There are far more IDSOs than DSOs in the U.S. today and they are growing faster than DSOs for several important reasons. Learn the difference.

In this interactive webinar we will cover:

• The truth about full autonomy, not just clinical autonomy
• What practice types are achieving record values today
• Why IDSOs never buy 100% of a practice
• How IDSOs pay 30% less than you do for supplies
• Which IDSOs are getting reimbursed at 20% higher rates than you are
• When is the best time to consider IDSO partnership
• The reasons thousands of doctors under 40 now have IDSO silent partners

Many doctors dismiss DSOs as evil “corporate” dentistry, and many are. But IDSOs are not, they have quietly become the silent partners of tens of thousands of the best dental practices in the USA. You don’t know what you don’t know. It is time to learn the facts about IDSOs and why they are far different from the DSOs of yore.

Join us for a 58-minute webinar in which LPS Co-Founder, Chip Fichtner discusses why LPS has completed over $1.0 billion in partnerships for dentists with Invisible Dental Support Organizations (IDSO) in the last 24 months. Learn why over $150 million of those partnerships were for doctors in their 30s. Values in IDSO partnership can exceed 200% and 300% of practice collections, whereas a typical doctor to doctor transition might achieve only 80% of collections.

 

An IDSO partnership is NOT a short-term exit, but rather a long-term wealth building strategy.

 In this fast-paced webinar, doctors will learn:

• Why some practice values are achieving new records.
• Which IDSO partners doctors should consider and not consider.
• The practice attributes required to achieve the highest values.
• The benefits of IDSO partnership for doctors of all ages.
• How IDSOs pay 25% less for supplies than independent dentists.

IDSOs have received over $5.0 billion in new financing and capital just in the first five months of 2024 from sophisticated global investors.  Learn why values may be peaking, even while dental practice consolidation is accelerating. You will either join an IDSO or compete with many in the very near future!

Hundreds of Invisible Dental Support Organizations (IDSO) of all types are contacting doctors directly urging you to become their partner. Some will succeed spectacularly and keep their promises and others will fail. Doctors should understand their many options in an IDSO silent partnership. Interest rates are impacting some of the IDSOs and many have stopped their acquisition and partnership process.

However, multiple IDSOs received over $5.0 BILLION dollars in new financing and capital in the first FIVE months of 2024. Many LPS clients have received a record number of qualified bidders and in many cases set new record values in the last 90 days. Fortunately, there is no shortage of IDSOs eager for larger, growing practices of all types; GP and specialty. LPS has completed over $1.0 BILLION dollars of IDSO partnerships in the last 24 months. (More than the next five advisors combined).

Join us for a 59-minute interactive online seminar to learn:
• Which IDSOs are making promises they cannot keep?
• Why some of the best IDSOs are completing recapitalizations this summer.
• The types of practices LPS gets 10+X EBITDA for today.
• How and why some IDSOs will succeed no matter what the interest rate levels.
• You may not be considering an IDSO partner, but you should understand how they impact your practice today and what the future looks like as an independent practice. It never hurts to learn!
• An IDSOs 30% Lower costs, higher reimbursement rates have become very attractive to younger doctors. Over $150 million of our last $1.0 billion in IDSO partnerships were for doctors in their 30’s!

Thousands of invisible dental support organizations (IDSOs) in all 50 states are eager to partner with growing dentists of all specialties. Larger practices are achieving record values today and gaining silent, resourceful partners. Doctors can achieve far higher values, both short and long-term, in an IDSO partnership vs. a doctor-to-doctor sale or remaining independent.

IDSOs become a doctor’s silent partner by buying 51% to 90% of a practice for cash up-front. Doctors remain as owners with their brand, team, and strategy with full autonomy for years or decades. Practices benefit from lower costs, higher reimbursement rates and reduced administrative burdens, creating more family time. IDSO partners help doctors grow their practices bigger, faster, and more profitably.

Topics we will cover include:

• Learn why thousands of doctors, including many under 40 have joined IDSOs.
• Understand how IDSOs can create generational wealth for their doctor partners.
• Learn the real financial upside of IDSO partnerships.
• Learn if the promised autonomy with an IDSO partnership is true.

The first quarter of 2024 started with a bang. LPS completed over $100 million of IDSO partnerships, most at new record values. Over $3.0 billion of new financing and capital was invested in multiple existing and new GP and specialty IDSOs. With the world’s largest investor, Blackrock ($10.0 TRILLION under management) doubling down with their second IDSO investment in less than 14 months, more sophisticated, global investors are eagerly pouring capital into U.S. IDSOs. It is not just private equity investing as the little advisors and doctors seem to think. Interest rates have added more IDSOs to the LPS Blacklist ( the 500+ IDSOs we will not let bid on our clients), but new capital is enabling high values high for growing practices nationally.

Join us for a special fast paced 57-minute webinar

 Topics we will cover include:

• How many bidders it took to hit 11x EBITDA for a Pedo/Ortho practice
• The smallish GP who had a 6x offer in hand but ended up at 8.5x thanks to LPS
• The miracle OMS practice deal at 11x EBITDA with a Dental Trifecta
• The hottest states in Q1 2024 were NOT FL, TX, AZ, TN, SC, ID or UT
• Biggest deal of the quarter was $55.0 million, but Q2 will have at least one larger

Join us for a special fast paced 58-minute webinar

 Topics we will cover include:

• Why an LPS ortho client got 12x+ EBITDA in 2023
• How 3x collections is achieved regularly in ortho by LPS
• Ortho practice attributes that generate the most qualified bidders
• Which Ortho Only IDSOs may not make it in their current form
• Learn why in the last 24 months, over $150 million dollars of LPS clients were under 40.

All dental specialists have uniquely different options from GP practices in IDSO partnerships. Specialists will typically achieve higher values and have more qualified bidders from which to choose their ideal IDSO silent partner. In the last seven years, dozens of single and multispecialty IDSOs have been formed by sophisticated, experienced investors. Many have already had high value recapitalizations.

In this fast paced, 62-minute webinar we will discuss the various options available for all specialists at record values in 2024. In 2023, LPS achieved values of over 10x EBITDA for every type of specialty practice except Endodontics, where we got close! In our $1.0 billion of completed IDSO partnerships in 2022 and 2023, most specialty clients had six or more qualified bidders.

• OMS: Learn which of the 17 OMS only IDSOs will probably fail and why Dental Trifectas may be a better option.
• Ortho: Some of the 14 ortho only IDSOs are having challenges due to case start drops, others are flourishing.
• Pedo: Even those with a heavy Medicaid component have new options due to the world’s largest investor joining the IDSO frenzy.
• Perio: Implant focused practices have multiple new options and the multispecialty IDSOs are the most eager.
• Endo: The Surgical Trifecta IDSOs are still eager for many geographies and value practices higher than Endo Only IDSOs.
• Prosth: Doctor age and multiple doctors drive up value. Implant: All on X financing sources and marketing tools are critical to success today. IDSOs have mastered both.

 

Join us for a special fast paced 59-minute webinar

 Topics we will cover include:

• Why an IDSO may or may not be a fit for you
• What is driving doctors as young as 30 to partner with an IDSO today
• The risks and rewards of IDSO partnership
• When is the right time to consider IDSO partnership 
• What happens when a competitor or a referral source joins an IDSO?

The business of dentistry is changing rapidly. You owe it to yourself to at least understand what is coming to your area or already there now. If you have a larger practice, the old doctor buy in/buy out model is not your most valuable path. You will ultimately join an IDSO or compete with many.