Dental billing guides and resources
Practical, operator-level playbooks on dental billing and collections, written for practice owners, office managers and DSO billing leads. No fluff, real numbers, steps you can run this week.
Guides
- Insurance Billing Automation18 min read
How to automate dental insurance payment posting
The definitive playbook: the four doors a remittance comes through, the anatomy of an EOB, seven steps from intake to weekly metrics, the hard cases (secondaries, bulk checks, recoupments, virtual cards), a denial-code table, a worked three-way reconciliation, a vendor checklist and a 30-day rollout.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation9 min read
How to choose dental billing software for a DSO
A buyer’s guide for multi-location groups: the eight things to evaluate, from mixed PMS support and insurance posting to reconciliation, rollout, controls and proof, plus the questions to ask every vendor.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation12 min read
Best dental billing software in 2026: 14 tools compared
ScoutIQ, Lassie, Zentist, InsideDesk, DayDream, Ventus AI, Fincura, Pearly, Weave, Dental Intelligence, Jarvis Analytics and three more, compared on insurance posting, patient billing, reconciliation to the books and analytics, with who each one suits.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation7 min read
How to post insurance payments in Eaglesoft
Posting ERAs and paper EOBs into Eaglesoft: matching payments to claims, write-offs, deposits, and where automation takes the keying off the desk.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation6 min read
How to post insurance payments in Dentrix
Posting insurance payments in Dentrix by claim and by check, handling bulk checks and write-offs, and automating the routine posts.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation6 min read
Open Dental ERA auto-posting: how it works
What Open Dental automates for ERAs, what still needs a person, and measured results from two Open Dental practices.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation6 min read
Dental ERA auto-posting: how it works
What ERA auto-posting posts from the 835 on Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental and other systems, what still needs a person, and why posting is not reconciliation.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation7 min read
Posting paper EOBs and insurance checks
Lockbox, PO Box or scanning in-house: how paper EOBs and checks get read, posted and matched to the bank.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation8 min read
How to reconcile dental insurance payments
The three matches behind every insurance payment: the deposit to its ERA or EOB, each claim to its posting in your practice system, and the deposit to the books, plus recoupments, fees, split payments and money nobody can identify.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation7 min read
How to reconcile dental deposits in QuickBooks
Match every EFT, check, virtual card and card payout to its remittance and your practice system, then book it with fees on their own lines, by location.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation8 min read
How DSOs reconcile dental deposits in NetSuite and Sage Intacct
For groups with several locations and legal entities: match every deposit to its remittance and the right location’s practice system, book it to the right entity and location, handle due to and due from, and close every entity.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation7 min read
How to find dental insurance underpayments
Compare what payers paid against your fee schedules, by code and payer, and tell a contractual adjustment from a real underpayment.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation6 min read
Dental billing services vs AI software vs in-house
A fair comparison of an outsourced billing service, AI software and an in-house team: control, speed, who handles exceptions and when each fits.
Read the guide - Insurance Billing Automation6 min read
Dental virtual credit card payments: fees and opting out
Why payers pay by virtual card, what the processing fee costs a practice, and how to ask for EFT instead.
Read the guide - Data4 min read
Dental billing data and benchmarks: real platform numbers
Citable statistics from the ScoutIQ platform: the 95% insurance payment match rate, the typical cut in days to get paid, staff hours reclaimed and onboarding time, each labeled with its source.
Read the guide - Glossary19 terms
Dental billing glossary
Short, plain-English definitions written by a dentist: ERA vs EOB, CARC and RARC codes, remittance advice, dental revenue cycle management, A/R days, payment reconciliation, net collection rate, coordination of benefits and more.
Read the guide - Patient Billing Automation12 min read
How to reduce dental A/R days: 7-step guide
The full operational playbook: measure what is owed and for how long, segment collectable balances, automate tiered text and email outreach, offer payment plans, reconcile back to your PMS and monitor weekly. Includes benchmarks and FAQs.
Read the guide - Patient Billing Automation10 min read
7 ways to automate dental patient collections
The companion to the days-to-get-paid guide: rule-based outreach workflows, multi-channel reminders, a payment portal patients actually use, self-serve plans and pay-later options, automatic PMS posting and weekly metrics.
Read the guide - AI Analytics + Atlas Assistant9 min read
The 5 hidden costs of manual reporting in a multi-location group
The twelve or more hours a week someone spends rebuilding spreadsheets is the visible cost. The real ones: problems caught weeks late, cross-location patterns nobody sees, gut-feel decisions and overhead that grows with every location.
Read the guide - AI Analytics + Atlas Assistant8 min read
How to fill last-minute dental cancellations
Why the recall list fails at 8:47am, and the five-step system for a ranked fill list built on treatment value, show rates and each patient’s actual scheduling patterns.
Read the guide - AI Analytics + Atlas Assistant8 min read
Unscheduled dental treatment: how to find it and book it
How to find the accepted but never-scheduled treatment in your practice management system, work the 30 to 90 day conversion window and run a ranked daily call list.
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