by Kayla Bowman | Sep 8, 2021 | Business & Team Management
When your patients book online, they pick a provider who is available for the selected appointment type. Don’t leave your patients to choose from an anonymous list of names. Add a personal touch to your online booking schedule by including images of your providers. If...
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by Betty Leh | Sep 1, 2021 | Revenue Cycle Management
Dentrix Ascend Online Payments is a feature of eStatements that helps you and your patients. It helps you collect from patients faster and improve your cash flow, and it helps your patients by providing them a convenient way to pay their bill online. To ensure a good...
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by Joel Baldwin | Aug 25, 2021 | Patient Record Management
Sometimes patients who’ve been away for a while come back to your practice. If you’ve inactivated these patients, you can easily reactivate them in Dentrix Ascend. And when you reactivate them, their address, procedures, insurance claims, payments, adjustments,...
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by Kayla Bowman | Aug 18, 2021 | Business & Team Management
The insurance estimates in Dentrix Ascend come from your insurance plan configuration, including coverage tables, benefits, and fee schedules. In some cases—for example, when a predetermination comes back from an insurance company, and the estimate amount does not...
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by Joel Baldwin | Aug 11, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
Normally, adults have 32 permanent teeth, and children have 20 baby teeth. In some cases, however, a patient may have extra teeth in their mouth called supernumerary teeth. When you need to chart treatment for a patient with a supernumerary tooth, Dentrix Ascend...
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by Kayla Bowman | Aug 3, 2021 | Schedule Optimization
Imagine you’re sitting at the front desk, and patient Jessica McClair calls to schedule appointments for herself, her husband, her toddler, and her younger sister. She would prefer to have all the appointments on the same day and around the same time. And, her husband...
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by Joel Baldwin | Jul 28, 2021 | Revenue Cycle Management
You already know that sending electronic statements is an affordable way to deliver requests for payment. This is good for you. Plus, 75% of patients want to receive eStatements from providers*, so it is good for them, too. After receiving an electronic statement,...
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by Joel Baldwin | Jul 22, 2021 | Business & Team Management
There are many provider compensation or reimbursement models. Your organization may pay on production or collections, gross or net, or maybe a base plus percentage. Whichever method you use, you need some numbers as a starting point. The Dentrix Ascend Provider A/R...
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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 Kayla Bowman | Jul 14, 2021 | Patient Relationship Management
Having trouble getting patients to open your emails? Your patients probably receive dozens of emails a day. The last thing you want is for your practice communications to get lost amidst a slew of social media notifications and junk mail. If you’re finding that few...
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