Endodontics and oral surgery

AI billing automation for endodontists and oral surgeons.Insurance payments posted to TDO and WinOMS.Patient balances auto-collected and posted.Referrals and A/R answered by Atlas.

Dental and medical EOBs read and posted the same morning. Checks, EFTs and virtual cards matched to the bank. Patients texted, paid and posted. Every location reconciled before the first patient, on the system you already run.

Free 30-day trial, no commitment, live in 24 hours. A person on your team approves anything that moves money. Founded by an endodontist; first live in an endodontic and oral surgery DSO past 237 locations.

Before your first patient
Sample data
  1. 9 dental EOBs and 5 medical ERAs posted to TDO$12,430
  2. Checks, EFTs and virtual cards matched to Chase$9,215
  3. 2 claims need a decision: a short pay and a CO-197Review 2 claims
  4. 23 patient balances collected$3,860
  5. TDO, Chase and QuickBooks agreeReconciled
  6. Referral report in your inboxSent
  7. 12 patients ranked to chase todayRanked
TDOChaseQuickBooks
Cash received today $16,290

Reads and posts to

  • TDO
  • EndoVision
  • PBS Endo
  • WinOMS
  • OMSVision
  • DSN
  • and 52 more, including Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft

What is billing automation for an endodontic or oral surgery practice?

Software that does the billing work a specialty office does by hand: reads every dental and medical EOB and posts it to the practice management system, matches checks, EFTs and virtual cards to the bank, collects patient balances by text, reconciles practice, bank and books, and reports on referring dentists, on TDO, WinOMS, OMSVision and the other specialty systems.

Why specialty billing is different

General dentistry tools assume a hygiene-driven schedule, one payer type and a system called Dentrix. An endodontic or oral surgery office breaks all three assumptions.

  • Every patient is a referral

    A specialty practice lives on referring dentists. Production by referrer, volume by referring office, and the referrers who went quiet are the numbers that run the practice, and they sit in a PMS field most reporting tools never read.

  • Dental and medical payers

    Oral surgery bills medical insurance alongside dental: different claim forms, different remittances, different rules. Two payer types means two piles of EOBs to post and two sets of deposits to match.

  • Systems most vendors skip

    TDO, EndoVision, PBS Endo, WinOMS, OMSVision and DSN are built for specialists. Most billing automation is built for Dentrix and Open Dental and stops there.

  • Fewer claims, bigger claims

    A specialty claim is worth many times a hygiene visit. One short payment or one unposted EOB is real money, and the fee on a virtual card for a large claim is worth tracking.

Insurance billing

Dental and medical, posted the same morning.

An oral surgery office gets two kinds of remittance. An endodontic office gets fewer, larger ones where a single short payment is worth a phone call. ScoutIQ AI reads both payer types line by line and posts them into the specialty system you run.

  • Dental EOBs and medical ERAs land in one queue, whatever door they came through: mail, clearinghouse, payer portal, virtual card notice.
  • Every line posted per procedure to TDO, WinOMS, OMSVision, EndoVision, PBS Endo or DSN: paid amount, contractual write-off, patient portion, claim status.
  • Checks, EFTs and virtual cards matched to the bank deposit. Virtual cards processed with the fee tracked, so you can see what each payer costs you.
  • Short payments and denials pulled out with the reason code attached, into a queue with an owner, before the appeal window closes.

Based on historical customer numbers, 90 to 92% of insurance payments match their EOB with no human review. The rest are flagged, not posted wrong.

How insurance billing automation works

Remittances this morning

5 of 21, as they came through the door

7:04 am · Sample data

  • Delta DentalDental EOB · D3330 molar root canal

    Check 4471 · $1,180.00

    Posted to TDO
  • AetnaMedical ERA · CPT 41899

    EFT · $2,640.00

    Posted to WinOMS
  • CignaVirtual card · D7240 impacted third molar

    $960.00 · fee $28.80 tracked

    Processed and posted
  • MetLifeDental EOB · D3410 apicoectomy

    Paid $410.00 of $640.00

    Short pay · for review
  • UnitedHealthcareMedical ERA · CPT 21248 implant

    Denied · CO-197 no prior authorization

    Appeal queue

3 posted on their own · 2 for a person, with the reason attached

These five: $4,780

NE

Northside Endodontics

Text message

Hi Maria, your balance after insurance for your root canal on Sep 9 is $412.00. Pay in a tap, or set up a plan.Pay $412.00
Paid $412.00 · Visa ····4471 · 6:52 pm
Thank you, Maria. Your receipt is on its way. Reply STOP to opt out.
  1. Posted to the TDO ledger6:52 pm
  2. Booked to QuickBooks6:52 pm
  3. Matched to the Chase depositnext morning

Sample data

Patient billing

Patient balances, collected and posted without a statement run.

A specialty patient sees you once, maybe twice. The balance that is left after insurance has to be collected by text, paid on a phone, and posted to the ledger and the books on its own, or it ages into a write-off nobody had time to chase.

  • A text with a pay link goes out the day the insurance posts and the patient portion is known. No statement run, no envelope.
  • Payment plans sized to a specialty case, on rules you set once: minimum balance, installments, card on file.
  • Every payment auto-posted to the patient ledger in your PMS and booked to QuickBooks or Xero. 99.5% reconcile with no human touch.
  • Your name, your tone and instant opt-out. Every message reads like the office, not a collections agency.
  • One standard across locations, with each practice free to override a rule.
How patient billing automation works

Atlas and AI analytics

Ask Atlas. Or let it tell you first.

Atlas is ScoutIQ AI's ChatGPT for dental billing. It reads your PMS, your bank and your books every night, including the referral fields most reporting tools ignore, and answers in plain English. Then it starts the conversation itself.

Try a question

You asked

Which referring offices sent fewer cases this quarter?

Referring officeCasesvs last quarterProduction
Lakeview Family Dental14-9$31,400
Bright Smiles Dentistry22+3$48,900
Cedar Park Dental6-7$12,100
Harbor Dental Group190$41,200

Two offices dropped. The check-in note below is drafted for Dr. Patel; Dr. Kim’s is queued behind it. Both are on Thursday’s referral report.

Drafted for your approval

To Dr. Patel, Lakeview Family Dental: “We noticed fewer cases from your office this quarter and want to make sure our reports and turnaround are working for you and your patients. Could we set up fifteen minutes this week?”

A person sends this. Nothing goes out on its own.

Sample data

Before you ask, Atlas already did

  • 7:00 am brief in your inbox

    What was posted, matched and collected overnight, per location, and the three things worth a look before the first patient.

  • Alerts before the month end does

    A referring office that went quiet, a location whose collections dipped, an unposted backlog growing, a payer denying more than usual.

  • The A/R report in your inbox

    Dental and medical split, by location and payer, with the aging buckets and who owns each open item.

  • Outreach drafted, waiting for approval

    Patient reminders and referrer check-ins written from your data. One tap sends; nothing goes out on its own.

Meet Atlas

The specialty systems, connected

ScoutIQ AI posts to 58 practice management systems. These are the ones an endodontic or oral surgery group runs.

Endodontics

  • TDO
  • EndoVision
  • PBS Endo

Oral surgery

  • WinOMS
  • OMSVision
  • DSN

Mixed specialty groups

  • Dentrix
  • Open Dental
  • Eaglesoft
  • Sensei Cloud
  • Denticon
  • CareStack

Plus QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct and NetSuite for the books, and 12,000+ banks for deposits.

Running a system that is not listed? ScoutIQ AI integrates it in 2 to 3 weeks. See every integration.

Case study

Specialty1 Partners

ScoutIQ AI started in this specialty. Dr. Mark Haddad co-founded Specialty1 Partners, grew it past 237 locations, and built ScoutIQ AI to fix the billing problem he could see from that seat. Dr. Lauren Santos grew up in her father's four-location oral surgery practice. Specialty1 was the first group live.

Specialty
Endodontics and oral surgery
Scale
One of the three largest endodontic and oral surgery DSOs in the country, past 237 locations
Connection
Co-founded by Dr. Mark Haddad, endodontist and co-founder of ScoutIQ AI
of payments auto-reconciled, no human touch
99%
of A/R collected on autopilot
30%
net collection rate
+2%
fewer days in A/R in the first quarter
20%
staff hours a year returned to patients
300+
Oral surgery bills medical and dental, and for years that meant two piles on the biller’s desk. ScoutIQ AI posts both the same morning and matches every deposit to the bank. Our office manager spends her day on patients now, not on paper.
MADr. Mark AzzopardiPartner, Oakland Oral Surgery · Michigan
One connection, and every clinic was live in hours. In the first quarter we cut days in A/R by 20%, slashed write-offs and freed up 300+ staff hours per year thanks to automated collection and reconciliation. ScoutIQ has become the data nerve center of our organization and pays for itself many times over.
MHDr. Mark HaddadEndodontist · Co-founder, Specialty1 Partners

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. ScoutIQ AI posts to TDO, EndoVision and PBS Endo for endodontics and to WinOMS, OMSVision and DSN for oral surgery, alongside the general dentistry systems a mixed group runs (Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, Sensei Cloud, Denticon and others, 58 in all). A system that is not on the list is integrated in 2 to 3 weeks.

Yes. Oral surgery practices bill medical payers for many procedures. ScoutIQ AI reads medical EOBs and ERAs the same way it reads dental ones, posts them to the patient ledger in the PMS, and matches the deposit to the remittance. Both payer types land in one queue.

Yes. Atlas reads the referral fields your PMS already keeps and answers in plain English: production by referring office, referral volume by quarter, and which referrers sent fewer cases than last year. It also flags a referrer who goes quiet before the quarter ends, and drafts the check-in note for you to approve.

Once the insurance payment posts and the patient portion is known, ScoutIQ AI texts the patient a pay link and a payment plan option on rules you set. Payments post to the patient ledger in your PMS and to QuickBooks or Xero on their own; 99.5% reconcile with no human touch. Messages carry your practice name and opt out instantly.

Yes. Single locations are live in 24 hours on the system they already run, with a free 30-day trial on their own data and no commitment. Multi-location specialty groups and DSOs run the same platform with one standard across locations.

General dentistry, endodontics and oral surgery today, from single locations to large DSOs. Orthodontics is the one specialty ScoutIQ AI does not serve.

Insurance billing automation is priced as a percentage of the insurance collections that flow through ScoutIQ AI, with a fixed price available depending on volume. Patient billing automation and analytics with Atlas are priced per seat and per location, with volume tiers. Quotes are per practice or group; a demo on your own data shows the price.

Go deeper

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See it on your own cases.

A 15-minute call, then a demo on your EOBs, your deposits and your referrers, on TDO, WinOMS or whatever you run. Then a free 30-day trial, no commitment, measured on your numbers.

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  • Free 30-day trial, no commitment
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