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June 2026

Point-of-Sale Financing in Healthcare: Why It’s Growing Fast

Offering patients a financing option during payment discussions can streamline payments, reduce front-desk friction and make out-of-pocket healthcare costs more manageable.

7 min read
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June 2026

How to Build a Patient Referral Program That Grows Your Practice

This step-by-step guide to creating a patient referral program can help strengthen trust, improve the patient experience and drive sustainable practice growth.

10 min read
CareCredit quick-start guide

June 2026

CareCredit for Providers: Quick Start Guide

Learn about the CareCredit credit card, benefits of CareCredit for your practice and your patients and clients, how it works and more.

5 min read
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May 2026

Presenting Financing and Addressing Hesitations

Promotional financing offers may be beneficial for any budget. Learn about why, when and how to discuss financing with your patients or clients.

5 min read
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April 2026

The Right Financing Partner Can Help You Drive Practice Growth

A trusted patient financing partner like CareCredit can help remove barriers to care and support sustainable practice growth with tools, expertise and a tailored plan.

3 min read
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April 2026

How Your Patients or Clients Can Use CareCredit

Offering the CareCredit credit card as a financing option can help patients move forward with care. Learn how CareCredit can benefit patients and your practice.

4 min read
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March 2026

A Financing Toolkit To Help You Achieve Peak Financing Program Performance

CareCredit offers simple tools to help you reach the top.

2 min read

February 2026

Applying for the CareCredit Credit Card Is Easy: Here’s How

The CareCredit health and wellness credit card gives you a convenient, flexible way to pay for care for the whole family — including pets.

1 min read
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February 2026

From Cost to Care: How Healthcare Teams Can Support Patient Experience and Practice Success

Uncover strategies and insights from a cross-industry roundtable of healthcare experts in this free downloadable guide.

1 min read
Effective Cost Conversations

October 2025

Effective Cost Conversations

Three successful providers from across different healthcare specialties including dentistry, audiology and chiropractic medicine discuss how they navigate key financial conversations to enable patients to move forward with recommended care.

5 min read
Additional Revenue Streams to Fuel Practice Growth

October 2025

Additional Revenue Streams to Fuel Practice Growth

Melissa Rose, Doctor of Audiology and owner of Nardelli Audiology, shares how she fueled practice growth by adding four new revenue streams.

5 min read
The Importance of Cash Flow in Private Practice

October 2025

The Importance of Cash Flow in Private Practice

Blaise Delfino, M.S. – HIS discusses how cash flow is essential to running a successful healthcare practice.

5 min read
Proven Strategies to Help Attract New Patients

October 2025

Proven Strategies to Help Attract New Patients

Four successful doctors from across different healthcare specialties, including cosmetic surgery, dentistry, veterinary medicine and audiology, share how they have successfully attracted new patients through patient referrals, community outreach, social media and word-of-mouth advertising.

5 min read
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July 2025

Helping Patients and Clients With the CareCredit Application Process

Make sure your team is prepared to be helpful to patients or clients as they apply for the CareCredit credit card. Get your staff up to speed with these easy-to-print resources.

2 min read
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February 2025

How to Have Effective Financial Conversations with Hearing Patients

This expert Q&A sheds light on ways to have smoother financial conversations with hearing patients and address potential barriers to moving forward with care. Learn helpful tips for communicating about costs and financing options.

7 min read
CareCredit Myths vs. Facts

October 2024

CareCredit Myths vs. Facts

Get answers to some of the most common misconceptions about the CareCredit credit card.

1 min read
Blueprint OMS Integration Guide

June 2024

Get more out of your Blueprint OMS with CareCredit Quickscreen

CareCredit financing solution integrates into Blueprint OMS so patients can have an additional way to pay.

1 min read
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April 2022

Optimizing cashflow in your practice

The importance of cash flow and how teamwork and creating partnerships can help you to achieve your business goals.

7 min read
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January 2022

Innovate your practice and increase access to care with patient financing

The importance of providing multiple financing options and how having those important financial conversations can help you to achieve your business goals.

6 min read
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July 2021

How to talk about financing

These tips will help you have supportive conversations and ongoing communication with your patients or clients about cost and payment.

3 min read
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July 2021

Creating your financial landing page

A landing page helps answer questions about CareCredit and educate your patients or clients on how to pay over time.

2 min read
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January 2020

Engage, educate, empower, and enable patients

Best practices for creating an environment that engages, educates, empowers and enables patients to get the care they need and want.

8 min read

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