Dentrix G7.4 includes the following enhancements:
Note: To learn about changes and fixes in this release, read the "What's changed?" section.
To make the process of assigning insurance easier, a database of insurance companies is compiled as you enter them. Most insurance carriers provide patients with a schedule of benefits to declare the maximum annual benefits for the individual and for the entire family. The schedule of benefits also includes deductible amounts and plan maximums. Setting and managing network and out-of-network benefits and coverages is easier now with the Dental Insurance Benefits and Coverage dialog box. To learn more, click Managing insurance benefits and coverages in the Office Manager. Additionally, the Dental Insurance Benefits and Coverage dialog box was modified for the Family File to include the beginning date of a subscriber's and a patient's benefits, a subscriber's ID and a patient's continuing care. To learn more about these features in the Family File, click Managing insurance benefits and coverages.
· Record more information about the insurance plan, such as benefit begin dates, eligibility coverage level, and coordination of benefits.
· Indicate Preferred Provider Organization (“PPO”), in-network/out-of-network benefits for an insurance plan, and add and view out-of-network insurance plan benefits and coverage information.
· Add waiting period, insurance plan types, and when crowns/ bridges are paid (prep date or seat date).
· View the patient’s insurance plan benefits and coverage while treatment planning procedures and when scheduling appointments.
· Select which providers participate in each insurance plan.
· Add exceptions for procedure code ranges such as max-age, minimum age, frequency limitations, downgrades, waiting periods, and if a procedure is only covered for certain tooth types.
· Add custom benefit maximum and deductible types.
· Update individual and family lifetime maximum benefits for all maximum benefit types and the amounts used.
· Copy the coverage table, payment table, or other benefit information from one insurance plan to another.
· Access insurance plan benefits and coverage information through a link in the claim window.
· New alerts are available when scheduling an appointment or treatment planning for patients with insurance plans with a missing tooth clause, a waiting period, exceptions, and so on.
· Get a warning when continuing care is scheduled before it’s due, if there is a waiting period, or if the provider does not participate in the patient’s insurance plan.
· Calculate payment table amounts using a selected fee schedule and the coverage table percentages.
· Access additional insurance plan contact information such as fax number, email address, and website address.
· Flag procedure codes to use the office fee schedule amount when the procedure code is posted or treatment planned. The Office fee schedule is selected in Fee Schedule Maintenance dialog box.
· You now have more information and choices when you're editing family relations.
· Special adjustments are no longer necessary, You can post offsetting adjustments if you choose to keep family balances the same when you move patients from one family to another. You can also select which adjustment types to use.
· You can choose whether the balance for transaction history (for patients being moved) remains with the original family or is moved with the patients.
· You can view what the new balances for both families will be and see any offsetting balances that will result. Offsetting balances are posted as current transactions and linked so that if necessary, you can later delete them as a group.
· You can move a patient even if the family has open claims as long as the patient is not a subscriber for any open claims and has no open claims.
· Using the new streamlined process for inactivating a provider, you can automatically transfer that provider's balance to another provider using offsetting adjustments. The resulting offsetting adjustments appear in the new Provider/Staff Inactivation Report that replaces the Provider/Staff Audit Trail Report.
You can now see more information in reports that include adjustment transactions/totals, offsetting adjustments, or whether adjustments are assigned to production or collections.
· Provider A/R Totals Report: Has columns for offsetting adjustment totals for production and collections.
· Practice Advisor Report: Has rows to show production and collections offsetting adjustment totals.
· Daily Collections Day Sheet Report: Flags which transactions are offsetting adjustments and indicates which adjustment types are applied to production and which are applied to collections with additional totals for adjustment assignments.
· Analysis Summary Report: Has a column for offsetting adjustment amounts.
· Adjustment Only Day Sheet Report: Flags which transactions are offsetting adjustments and indicates which adjustment types are applied to production and which are applied to collections with additional totals for adjustment assignments.
· Day Sheet Report: Flags which transactions are offsetting adjustments and adds a total for offsetting adjustments.
· Practice Analysis Adjustment Summary Report: Indicates which adjustment types are applied to production and which are applied to collections with additional totals for adjustment assignments.
· Appointment Book Calendar: You can exclude offsetting adjustments when you select Calculate with Production Adjustments with the option to show Scheduled Production.
· You can now select an option to post adjustments to eEOBs according to the Ledger fees or the claim billed amount from the eEOB in the Batch Insurance Payment Entry feature in the Ledger.
· You can now send statements by mail, email, or both through a single electronic submission.
· You can set a default delivery method for all eStatements or an individual guarantor.
· You can use the newly enhanced electronic billing history to easily track your electronic statements.
Note: For more information on the updates to QuickBill, please refer to the QuickBill for Dentrix G7.4 User's Guide.
The list below contains the fixes and changes that have been included in the Dentrix G7.4 release:
· The screen capture feature in the Document Center was not working correctly. This has been fixed.
· The Batch Insurance Payment Entry dialog box was slow to load claims. This has been fixed.
· The Standard form in the Prescriptions Setup dialog box did not remain highlighted after it was selected as the default form. This has been fixed.
· The spell checker was incorrectly flagging the entry, OneQ 6 H, as a spelling error. This has been fixed.
· The Practice Advisor and Daily Huddle reports were reporting treatment accepted and treatment diagnosed totals incorrectly. This has been fixed.
· The Provider A/R Totals Report incorrectly included two identical Totals rows. This has been fixed.
· After Dentrix was uninstalled and then reinstalled, the path in the Windows Registry incorrectly pointed to the previous database location. This has been fixed.
· A warning and the Match button did not appear if the patid (patient ID) does not have a match with the identid (guarantor ID). This has been fixed.
· WebSync incorrectly referred to MSXML versions that Microsoft no longer supports. This has been fixed.
· The User Permissions dialog box failed to open after passwords were enabled. This has been fixed.