by Joel Baldwin | Jul 21, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
The Predetermination – Tracking Report shows the status of all the predeterminations you have sent in the last six months (180 days). The statuses come from the payer clearinghouse and can help you plan your next steps. What the default report does not have is...
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by Joel Baldwin | Jul 6, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
It is not always possible to send predeterminations immediately as you finish up a treatment plan presentation. Sometimes the phone rings, or you otherwise get distracted. Then, you forget. There is one report in Dentrix Ascend to help you identify these unsent...
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by Betty Leh | May 5, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency, Patient Record Management
It is common for a dentist at the end of an oral surgery procedure to ask the dental assistant to enter prescriptions and review post-operative instructions with a patient while they move on to their next patient. For offices that use ePrescribe, you can assign a...
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by Joel Baldwin | Mar 17, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
How many times a week do your hygienists record something like “Performed general scaling with hand instruments. Flossed all contacts” in your patients’ clinical notes? Using clinical note templates, you can easily insert standard phrases like this with a few mouse...
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by Joel Baldwin | Mar 3, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
A quick-pick is a helper in your clinical note templates. It is a handy list of pre-determined choices that “fill in the blank” in a clinical note sentence. Dentrix Ascend comes with a long list of quick-picks already defined, and you can create new quick-picks or...
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by Betty Leh | Jan 13, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
Patients often will not proceed with your best treatment recommendation if they feel they cannot afford it. So, what do you do? There are many ways to approach this problem, including flexible financing and staff and patient education techniques. Many practices find...
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