Avoiding Duplicate Insurance Carriers
When you need to add a new carrier to your database, be aware that you add carriers at the organization level. You only have to do it once because everyone sees and shares the result. If your office is part of a multi-location practice, this means that on some level...
How to Avoid Charging Multiple Periapical Images During an Endo Procedure
A commonly asked question is: “How do you avoid charging for each x-ray acquired during an endo procedure?” In Dentrix Ascend, it’s important to make sure you are acquiring the periapical image in Endo mode to avoid charging a patient for each x-ray taken during an...
Creating an Excuse Letter For a Patient
Your patients may ask you for an excuse letter to give to their school or work. Dentrix Ascend makes it easy for you to set up an Excuse Letter template so that you can quickly create personalized excuse letters for your patients. Let’s learn how to set up the Excuse...
Evaluating Your Insurance Carriers
PPO write-offs can have a substantial impact on your bottom line. But before you consider dropping a payer or negotiating with a PPO, you need the numbers on your side. Dentrix Ascend has a report that lists everything you need to know about each insurance carrier so...
End-of-Year Best Practices
The end of the year is always a busy time in a dental practice. In addition to your everyday tasks, you need to complete tasks for the end of the year and for the upcoming year. Attend this webinar to learn how to: find patients with overdue recare find...
Increasing Your Billing Frequency to Improve Cash Flow
Dentrix Ascend gives you several billing statement options: printing paper statements, using the Print & Mail for Me fulfillment service, and sending eStatements. Sending eStatements is cost-effective for you and convenient for your patients, and you can send...
Viewing Power Reporting Data as a Chart
All you data-visualization gurus out there will love this Power Reporting tip. Did you know you can view your Power Reporting data as a bar chart, line graph, scatter plot, and many other formats? With a few easy clicks, you can filter a Power Report to show only the...
5 Steps to Getting Patient Portion Estimates You Can Trust
Correctly setting up your insurance plans, coverage tables, and exceptions results in more accurate patient and insurance portion estimates on treatment plans and reduces your accounts receivable. The right setup can then help you confidently collect the correct...
Resources Right in the App
Have you ever opened a new page in Dentrix Ascend and wondered “What do I do here?” or “What do I use this for?” In-app resources to the rescue! Nearly every page in Dentrix Ascend has articles and videos with workflow suggestions for the page you are on. You just...
Sending Electronic Billing Statements for Free
Did you know that you don’t have to subscribe to Dentrix Ascend Pay to send eStatement to your patients? Yes, you read that right! Sending estatements is a quick and cost-free way of sending statements. When you send an estatement, you could get paid quicker and...