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Matthew Horan, DMD, MPH

Founder & Principal Consultant

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What We Offer

Horan Consulting LLC works with dental practices, community health centers, technology companies, academic institutions, and other healthcare organizations, innovators, and partners to transform the oral health system.

We aim to expand access to oral health care and design sustainable, scalable programs. We provide strategic clarity and hands-on support to help you navigate real-time challenges, optimize day-to-day operations, and plan for long-term capacity and scope.

Whether you are implementing a new technology, expanding medical-dental integration, advancing a chronic care model of disease management for oral health, or driving other system-level change, we help you move from your initial vision to measurable results.

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  • We bridge the gap between dental and overall medical care to foster holistic treatment models, while developing the teams required to execute them.

    • Holistic Care Models: Designing frameworks for seamless medical dental integration and interdisciplinary practice.

    • Prevention-Forward Practices: Embedding preventive healthcare and screening into dental practice, advancing models that move us toward the beginning of the end of dental caries (tooth decay) and the rise of the oral health physician.

    • Team Development: Building high-performing teams by fostering collaboration, trust, leadership capacity, and accountability.

  • We serve as a strategic bridge between private health-tech innovators and complex public health systems, driving broad, system-level transformation.

    • Commercialization Strategy: Guiding health-tech startups as they bring new tools into public health, CHC, and FQHC markets.

    • Rural Health Transformation: Developing rural oral health workforce strategies and integrated rural health delivery models, including networked clinics that incorporate dental care.

    • Community Expansion: Supporting the expansion of care into community hubs, including embedded dental clinics in K-12 schools and college campuses, and school-based screening initiatives, portable, and mobile clinics.

    • System-Level Change: Aligning new technological products and services with a broader vision for system-level change and improved access for underserved communities.

  • We provide the strategic clarity that drives mission-aligned growth and innovation, helping organizations move from vision to measurable results.

    • Program Design & Funding: Ensuring program sustainability through thoughtful design, funding alignment, and long-term planning.

    • Value-Based Models: Piloting alternative payment models and shifting toward value-based models that include oral health.

    • Disease Management: Shifting oral health toward a chronic care model of disease management rather than just surgical intervention.

    • Policy Navigation: Expert insights into navigating and shaping federal oral health policy.

  • We help you implement the technical systems, metrics, and administrative workflows necessary to run a highly efficient, data-driven practice and strengthen provider resourcing.

    • Digital Health Integration: Utilizing shared medical-dental health records alongside innovative teledentistry platforms.

    • Diagnostic Coding & Metrics: Implementing and using diagnostic coding effectively, while tracking outcome-based quality measures.

    • Revenue Cycle Optimization: Expert oversight of dental billing and coding to ensure financial health and compliance.

    • Care Coordination: Strengthening care coordination and provider resourcing through policy and technology.

  • We support the day-to-day delivery of care by helping you navigate real-time challenges while strategically planning for the future. We optimize your operations to strengthen performance, efficiency, and the patient experience.

    • Strategic Growth: Expert guidance in planning for growth — capacity and scope, including multi-site dental operations and comprehensive dental clinic expansion.

    • Stabilization & Change Navigation: Hands-on support for maintaining sustainable programs amidst major changes, providing change navigation that keeps people engaged and initiatives on track.

    • Quality & Compliance: Driving operational excellence through quality assurance and improvement — including auditing and compliance, alongside robust infection control and disease prevention.

    • Alternative Care Models: Expanding access sustainably through mobile dental practice, portable dental practice, and teledental approaches.

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