While insurance and claims management can be a daunting aspect of running a dental practice, it doesn’t have to be. In this blog post, we’ve put together a comprehensive round-up of all the posts that cover how to handle insurance and claims in Open Dental. From best practices to tips and tricks, you’ll find everything you need to make the insurance and claims process a breeze. So, without further ado, let’s dive in!

Setup

• Best Practices for Handling Out-of-Network Insurance: Learn how to set up out-of-network plans and track insurance fees using Blue Book.
• Insurance Plans Part 1: Common Plan Types: This post goes over the more common insurance plan types of PPO Percentage, PPO Fixed Benefit, and Category Percentage.
• Insurance Plans Part 2: Complex Plan Types: This post reviews the less-commonly used plan types of Capitation (HMO/DMO) and Medicaid/Flat Co-pay.
• Handling Medical Insurance in Open Dental: Learn how to cross-code dental procedures with medical codes and more in this post about how to bill a claim to medical insurance
• How to Process Insurance Plan Changes: If you’ve ever wondered what to do when a patient changes insurance, uses benefits outside your practice, insurance fees change, or how to handle any other number of changes to patients’ benefits or an insurance plan, this is the post for you.
• Open Dental Tools for Your Fee-for-Service Practice: Discover all the tools Open Dental has to offer to help your Fee-for-Service run smoothly.
• Feature Highlight: Scheduled Processes: Learn how the Scheduled Processes feature can be used to run batch insurance verification automatically.
• Feature Highlight 23.2: Frequency Limitations: Frequency Limitations have been overhauled in Version 23.2. Learn how to make the most of the new options that allow for more flexibility and customization.

Claims & Payments

• Effectively Manage Outstanding Insurance Claims: This post delves into how to utilize all the features of the Outstanding Insurance Claims Report, so claims don’t slip through the cracks.
• Managing Receivables: Patients & Insurance: Discover even more reports and tools to make sure your practice isn’t missing out on sending procedures or receiving payments.
• Tips for Getting Insurance Claims Paid Promptly: Learn some tips and tricks to help reduce claim denials.
• Tips and Tricks for Entering Insurance Payments: Find out the different ways to enter batch and single insurance payments and track allowed fees.
• FAQs Answered: Insurance Claims: Learn the answers to some of our most common questions about insurance claims.

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