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Live one-day course · Sunday, January 24, 2027

Make the Transition to Office-Based Dental Anesthesia

You already know how to give the anesthetic. This day is about everything around it.

A six-hour live course for physician anesthesiologists leaving the hospital and surgery center and transitioning into dental office based anesthesia. Learn how to safely provide anesthesia in an office-based setting — the state permits, licensing, and regulations you have to comply with; sourcing your drugs, equipment, and mobile setup; what it costs to start; forming and insuring the business; finding, pitching, and contracting with dental offices; and setting your fees, billing, and collecting so you actually get paid.

Date
Sun, Jan 24, 2027
Time
8:00a – 2:00p PT
Format
Live on Google Meet
Access
Recording included
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Recording included for 12 months. Full refund if you leave before the first break.
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$1,299
$1,599

Early registration through November 30, 2026. $1,599 after.

  • Six hours live with Q&A throughout, not a recorded replay
  • Full recording and slide deck, 12-month access
  • Startup toolkit — checklists, budget worksheet, agreement template
  • Live Q&A after every module — bring your state and your situation
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Why this course exists

Your medical training prepared you to give anesthesia. It did not prepare you for the business of anesthesia.

Most anesthesiologists who consider office-based dental work stop at the same four questions. This course answers all four.

01

A dental office is not a hospital

Nothing is supplied for you. The monitors, the drugs, the disposables, the paperwork — all of it arrives with you. Sourcing it and moving it between offices is a logistics problem, and this course solves it.

02

The rules are different in every state

Permits, facility standards, and how you store and transport controlled substances between offices all vary. You need to know your state's requirements before your first case, not after.

03

You become the business

Entity, malpractice coverage, equipment, scheduling, contracts, staff. None of it is taught in residency and nobody hands you a manual on the way out.

04

You set your own income

No salary. You set the fee, negotiate with the dental office, bill, and collect. Knowing those numbers before you start is what separates a good first year from a bad one.

Dr. Amir Rad

Built from one anesthesiologist and one dental office into a three-physician practice.

What this course does

It teaches you how to move from the hospital or surgery center into the dental office, and provide anesthesia there safely.

By 2:00 p.m. you will know how to source your drugs and equipment, set yourself up to work inside a dental office, meet your state's requirements, find and contract with dental practices, set your fee, and get paid. You leave with the order to do it in: first, second, third.

The day

Six hours, six modules, all times Pacific

Each module ends with live Q&A. Bring your state, your situation, and your numbers.

8:00 – 8:10 a.m.

Orientation

  • How the day runs, how to get your questions answered, and what's in your toolkit
8:10 – 9:05 a.m.Module 1

The office-based model — and why demand keeps growing

  • Who actually needs office-based dental anesthesia: pediatric patients, special-needs and medically complex adults, and severe dental phobia
  • Three delivery models — solo mobile, group practice, employed in-house — with the honest tradeoffs of each
  • What a real week looks like: case volume per day, room turnover, drive time, and the ceiling on how much you can actually do
  • The math, side by side: a hospital or ASC W2 day versus an office-based day, gross and net
  • What you give up — no CRNA, no anesthesia tech, no hospital pharmacy, no support staff — and who thrives anyway
9:05 – 10:05 a.m.Module 2

Sourcing your drugs, equipment, and mobile setup

  • The full equipment list for an office-based practice, with real price ranges: monitors, delivery setup, disposables, and transport cases
  • Where to actually buy it — distributors, direct manufacturers, refurbished and used markets, and what each route costs you in time and money
  • Sourcing your pharmacy: wholesaler accounts, minimum orders, expiry management, and the paperwork each supplier will ask you for
  • Minimum viable kit versus the full build — what to buy in month one instead of month twelve
  • The pre-visit office walkthrough: what to look at before you agree to work somewhere, and what to ask the dentist to provide
  • Mobile logistics that decide your day: the vehicle, setup and teardown time, sterilization, and restocking
  • Recordkeeping and documentation systems, and how your charts are stored when the office isn't yours
10:05 – 10:20 a.m.
Break
10:20 – 11:05 a.m.Module 3

Licensing, permits, facility standards, and compliance

  • How to read your own state's rules: where physician anesthesiologists sit relative to dental board sedation permits, and the jurisdiction question most people get wrong
  • Facility and equipment requirements, inspections, and what inspectors actually look for
  • Controlled substances across multiple sites — DEA registration, storage, transport, logs, and waste
  • Malpractice coverage: which carriers write office-based dental anesthesia, limits, tail coverage, and why your hospital policy almost certainly does not follow you
  • Consent, recordkeeping, and HIPAA when you are practicing inside someone else's office and on their patients
11:05 – 11:50 a.m.Module 4

Building the business

  • Entity, EIN, banking, and why the structure you pick affects both liability and your tax bill
  • Your total startup budget and first-year operating cost, line by line
  • Business insurance beyond malpractice: general liability, auto, and what a dental office will ask you to carry
  • When to hire a scheduler, when to add a second anesthesiologist, and what each actually costs
  • The software stack: intake forms, scheduling, charting, e-fax, and payments
  • Bookkeeping, quarterly taxes, and how you actually pay yourself
11:50 – 12:20 p.m.
Lunch break
12:20 – 1:05 p.m.Module 5

Finding, winning, and keeping dental partners

  • Where the volume is: pediatric dentistry, special-needs clinics, oral surgery, and high-anxiety general practices
  • Outreach that gets a meeting versus outreach that gets deleted
  • The first conversation: what a dentist actually cares about, and the four objections you will hear every time
  • Written agreements — scope, scheduling, cancellations and no-shows, who owns the fee, indemnification
  • Setting expectations up front so an office doesn't push you outside what you agreed to
  • Why most anesthesiologists lose the account in year two, and the reliability habits that prevent it
1:05 – 1:40 p.m.Module 6

Fees, billing, collections, and year-one economics

  • Setting your fee: per-case, hourly, and unit-based models, and how to find what your market bears
  • Cash-pay versus insurance for a brand-new practice — the real tradeoff, not the ideological one
  • Medical-necessity documentation that gets office-based dental anesthesia covered instead of denied
  • Medicaid and pediatric volume: when the economics work and when they don't
  • Credentialing, claims, denials, and appeals as an actual weekly workflow
  • Deposits, cancellations, and collecting from families — plus a realistic year-one revenue and expense picture
1:40 – 2:00 p.m.

Open Q&A

  • Anything not covered, plus your specific state, market, and situation

Included with your seat

The templates and checklists, so you're not rebuilding them from scratch

Fit

Who this course is for

Built for you if…

  • +You're a board-certified or board-eligible physician anesthesiologist currently in a hospital or surgery center
  • +You want to replace your W2 entirely — or add one or two office days a week without leaving it
  • +You're comfortable clinically but have never formed a company, set a fee, or signed a service agreement
  • +You're six to twenty-four months from making a real move and want the sequence before you spend money
  • +You want candid numbers, including the ones that make the model look less attractive

Not for you if…

  • You're willing to walk into a dental office unprepared and hope it goes fine. It has gone catastrophically for physicians who did exactly that
  • You don't mind being taken advantage of by offices that prey on anesthesiologists new to the dental setting — the ones counting on you not knowing the rules and regulations until you're already in trouble
  • You don't want to make the leap from W2 hospital employee to owning the business yourself
  • You need CME or CE credit — none is offered for this session
Dr. Amir Rad, MD

Your instructor

Amir Rad, MD

Board-certified physician anesthesiologist and founder of Los Angeles Dental Anesthesia, a mobile office-based anesthesia practice serving pediatric, special-needs, medically complex, and high-anxiety dental patients across Southern California.

He built the practice from a single anesthesiologist and one dental office into a group of three board-certified physician anesthesiologists with a full administrative and scheduling team. This course is the training he wishes had existed when he left the hospital.

  • Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology; licensed in California and New York
  • General Dental Anesthesia Permit, Dental Board of California
  • Residency in anesthesiology and pain management, University of Miami — Emanuel M. Papper Award for Best Anesthesiology Resident
  • MD, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences · BS, UCLA, magna cum laude
  • Runs the full stack himself: permits, insurance, equipment, contracts, billing, hiring, and scheduling
Full
refund

Sit through the first two hours. If it isn't worth it, tell me and I'll refund you in full.

No form, no explanation required. Email before the first break on the day of the session and your registration is refunded — you keep the toolkit files you've already downloaded.

Free · No obligation

Not ready to register? Come to the free 20-minute preview.

I'll walk through exactly what the six-hour course covers — module by module — so you can decide whether it's worth your Sunday and your money. Bring questions; I'll stay on and answer as many as I can.

If you decide it isn't for you, you'll still leave knowing what the transition actually requires. That's a useful twenty minutes either way.

  • Sunday, December 6, 2026 · 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Pacific
  • Live on Google Meet, with a recording sent to everyone who registers
  • No cost, no card — just your name and email

I'll email you the Google Meet link and a calendar invite. I won't sell or share your information.

Questions

Before you register

Is CME or CE credit offered?

No. This is a business and operations course, not a clinical one and not an accredited activity. You already know how to give anesthesia — this day is about everything else. If you need credit hours, this session will not provide them.

I'm not in California. Will this apply to my state?

The operational and business frameworks apply anywhere. Regulatory specifics vary considerably by state, so Module 3 teaches you how to research and interpret your own state's rules, with California used as a worked example. You'll leave knowing exactly which questions to ask your state medical and dental boards — not with a legal answer for your jurisdiction.

I'm not sure yet. Is there a way to see what the course covers first?

Yes. On Sunday, December 6 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific I'm running a free 20-minute session walking through exactly what the six-hour course covers, module by module, with open Q&A after. It's free, it's recorded, and there's no obligation. Save your spot here.

What if I can't attend live?

Register anyway. Every seat includes the full recording and slide deck for twelve months. That said, the live Q&A is a substantial part of the value, so attend if you can — and if you can't, send your questions in advance and they'll be answered on the recording.

Do I have to quit my job to make this work?

No, and most people shouldn't start that way. A common path is one or two office days a month alongside a full W2, scaling as the referral base grows. The day covers what that transition sequence looks like and when it makes sense to cut over.

I'm a CRNA or a dentist anesthesiologist. Can I attend?

You're welcome to, but the content is written for physician anesthesiologists. Scope of practice, supervision requirements, and permitting differ significantly for other provider types, and those differences won't be covered in depth.

Is the sample agreement a legal document I can just sign?

No. It's a starting-point template that shows you which terms matter and why. Take it to an attorney licensed in your state before you use it. The same goes for entity formation and tax structure — those conversations belong with your own attorney and CPA.

Will you tell me how much I'll earn?

You'll get real fee ranges, real cost structures, and a realistic model for year-one ramp. You will not get an income promise, because your market, your state, your referral base, and your willingness to do the outreach determine the outcome far more than anything covered in six hours.

Sunday, January 24, 2027 · 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Pacific

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