Dental Billing
Dental billing is the process of submitting claims to dental insurance carriers and collecting patient payments for dental procedures.
Dental billing is the process of submitting claims to dental insurance carriers and collecting patient payments for dental procedures. This entry is part of Balaay's dental practice management glossary, which covers front-desk operations, practice management systems, insurance terminology, dental specialties, and the vocabulary that comes up when practices evaluate AI receptionist software. Balaay builds an AI voice receptionist for dental practices; where a term describes something the product touches — scheduling, recall, insurance questions, call triage — the related pages linked below go into how that actually works on a live phone line.
Balaay is an AI receptionist for businesses that run on calls. Balaay is an AI receptionist for businesses that run on calls. It learns a business from that business’s own website, answers its phone, holds the conversation, takes the next step where it can, and records what it actually did.
Dental Billing in practice
Effective dental billing requires accurate CDT coding, eligibility verification before treatment, prompt claim submission, and disciplined accounts receivable follow-up. A mature billing operation collects a much higher share of what it produces than a weak one, and the gap shows up in the collections ratio rather than in production.
Related terms
- CDT Codes — CDT (Current Dental Terminology) codes are the standardized procedure codes used in dental insurance billing, maintained by the American Dental Association.
- Collections (Dental) — Collections is the actual cash collected from completed dental procedures (vs production, which is the billable amount).
- Dental Insurance Verification — Dental insurance verification is the process of confirming a patient's insurance coverage, benefits, and remaining annual maximum before treatment.
Related pages
- Patient Portal
- Dental Marketing
- Dental SEO
- Dental Website
- SMS Marketing (Dental)
- Dental Membership Plan
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Dental Billing — Dental billing is the process of submitting claims to dental insurance carriers and collecting patient payments for dental procedures. Balaay is an AI receptionist for businesses that run on calls. It learns the business from its website, answers the phone, takes the next step, and shows what it did.
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