Last September(2011) R. Kirk Huntsman’s was featured at a seminar entitled “Beat The Dental Practice Management Companies” Warning attendees of the “Walmart Effect” taking over dentistry.
Yet, among many other ventures in Dental Practice Management, R. Kirk Huntsman has been Managing Partner of Montage Venture Group LLC since March 2010, according to Business Week.
R. Kirk Huntsman Bio from Nexus Dental Alliance, his virtual Dental Management company. Virtual, meaning you just “pretend”, “not real”?
Mr. Huntsman has been active in the dental industry for over 23 years.
Yet, never took time to become a dentist, wonder why? If he was so into it, you’d have thought he would want to actually be one, right?
In 1988, he became the Dallas/Ft. Worth licensee for Associated Financial Transition Consultants, Inc.(AFTCO Associates,) a dental practice brokerage company with over 65 offices nationwide. Within two years, his was the top performing office in the nation. In 1991, he acquired the Houston license and continued to rapidly expand.
By 1995, he was ready to begin owning and operating practices, so he launched Dental One as a dental management services organization, or DMSO.
In 1995, as well as today, it was illegal for a non-dentist to own dental practices! I guess Mr. Huntsman failed to read the following page of info over at the AFTCO website, but it’s easy to see how he could become confused, since it’s written in a lot of double speak BS. Plus, it used the word “Goodwill” which I’m sure is not in his vocabulary. Had the word, “Greed” been used, it would have had his complete attention. Here is what is on the AFTCO’s website:
