Ask the Dentrix Expert: How can I reach out to patients about remaining insurance benefits?

Editor's note: This is another installment in a yearlong series that is designed to help dentists and team members understand their practice management software better.

Today, we are providing you with another tip from Dayna Johnson, a certified Dentrix trainer and founder of Novonee.com. If you have a Dentrix question you would like Dayna to answer for an upcoming column, you can email her at [email protected].

Look for an article focused on Eaglesoft later this month. An article focused on Curve Dental ran earlier this month.

Dayna Johnson.

Q: Is there a way I can reach out to patients who have remaining insurance benefits to use before the end of the year?

A: Yes, there are a couple of ways to generate a list in Dentrix to accomplish this goal.

If you want to generate a list of patients who have a treatment plan and unused insurance benefits, I would recommend using the Treatment Manager Report. You can filter this report to get a very narrow or very broad list of patients.

The other way you can generate a list of patients who have unused benefits is to use the Letters & Custom Lists feature. You can use Patient Report by Filters and customize a list of patients to call or email.

Both of these lists can be exported into an Excel file or comma-separated values (CSV) file to use in other platforms.

Dayna Johnson is the founder of Novonee, a Dentrix online community. She can be reached via email at [email protected].

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