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Building Effective Associate Dentist Incentive Structures How the right incentive structure can set your organization up for long-term success with associates
Effective associate dentist structures help to attract, hire, and retain top talent for your organization. Finding the right way to implement these structures to improve employee engagement is crucial to the success of your organization.
In a recent interview with The DEO, John Arnold and Eric Scalzo of Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP discussed different associate dentist incentive structures being used today. John Arnold is a partner at Waller where he focuses his practice on representing private equity groups and their portfolio companies across the healthcare services space. Arnold
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serves as go-to outside counsel for many national DSOs and has significant experience representing DSOs and dental groups on structuring, transactional, corporate and compliance matters. Eric Scalzo is a partner at Waller, representing private equity clients and dentists and other providers in the formation, acquisition, growth
and sale of group practices and portfolio companies in the practice management space. Scalzo has grown a team with the knowledge, capability and flexibility to handle high 9-figure platform transactions as well as single location acquisitions for growth-minded companies. Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP is a full-service firm with nearly three decades of experiencing representing dental practices and DSOs on matters ranging from complex corporate, transactional, tax and compliance matters to government investigations and high-stakes litigation.
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