Our Company

The Knutzen-McVay Group specializes in practice sales and transitions, consulting, and practice management solutions for dentists. Our experienced team, with a combined professional expertise of over 65 years in the dental industry, knows and understands dentistry in the Northwest. We strive for excellence and will not compromise in our commitment to your success.

Increasing performance, efficiency and profitability are the goals of most businesses, and dental practices are no different. The Knutzen-McVay Group will help you establish long-term prosperity with focused, strategic direction and a vision for your future.

We are experts at developing programs that help increase profits while managing costs. Maximize your practice’s potential with proven performance advice that will keep you at the forefront of the dental profession.

Our company provides a unique, individualized approach to the business of dentistry, focusing on the specific needs of each doctor and practice, either on a small scale or large scale – you decide. We welcome you to share your goals and visions, and our objective is to provide you with the tools and means to reach them, without compromising your treatment philosophies.

Let The Knutzen-McVay Group show you how we can help your practice achieve its goals. We will travel to your practice and will work with you on solutions that fit your objectives. We help practices of all sizes – from new start-ups to veteran practitioners looking to fine-tune their operations. Call us today and we’ll help your practice reach new heights of success.

Our History

The foundation of The Knutzen-McVay Group started in Seattle, Washington in early 1970. The company at that time was called Professional Credit Management. The focus of the company was to help small businesses do a better job of handling their accounts receivable. It took Dave Knutzen a short period of time to realize the businesses who had the worst time collecting their money were businesses who dealt with services rather than products. This led him to working with the healing arts professionals, since they tended to have the largest problem with collecting accounts receivable. In those days only 4% of the people in the United States were covered by dental insurance and 96% were private pay.

Dave eventually merged the business with a company in Salem, Oregon called HASCO. They specialized in factoring accounts receivable for dental offices. That relationship lasted for a brief period of time, and he bought the company back and moved to Yakima, Washington. In 1974, when President Nixon removed the ban on wage and price freezes, a number of Dave’s clients asked what offices were charging for certain services and what they were paying their staff. At that point, he completed a survey among his clients and distributed the results of the survey to them. This led him to becoming more involved in the management of dental practices, which he continued to grow and expanded his clientele throughout Central Washington.

Dave began doing practice valuations in the early 1980’s, as a trend began of young dentists coming out of dental schools who were looking for practices to buy rather than doing a start-up. They were one of the first companies in the Northwest to begin doing this.

Since then, Dave relocated the business to Spokane and eventually back to Seattle in the early 1980’s. At one point, they grew to having seven people working for them in the office. During that time Dave joined an organization called the American Academy of Dental Practice Administration and became an active member. They had annual meetings with dentists, and their staffs were invited to attend, as well. There were also separate annual meetings held for members only. Dave met a number of people through that organization and heard many very good speakers. After hearing some of the speakers, they also invited a number of them to visit the Northwest and hold seminars for their clients, which they hosted in Spokane and Seattle. These turned out to be very worthwhile endeavors, and many of their clients who attended them received great benefits.

In the year 2000, Dave began to think about transitions for the business. He subsequently joined forces with Todd McVay in 2008, and Todd stayed with Dave until January 2011 when he assumed responsibility of the company from him. At that point, Todd asked Dave to stay on with him on a part-time basis to assist him in the practice transition side of the business, which Dave has continued to do, but will soon enter retirement sometime in 2019.