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the basics. Claims went out. Payments came back. Staff posted them manually and hoped nothing slipped through the cracks. That worked when volumes were lower and insurance plans were simpler. Today, it is a different world. More plans, more carve outs, more coordination of benefits, more denials
May 27, 2026
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Every few months, a new headline shows up that sounds like the opening scene of a sci-fi movie. The government wants AI doctors. Utah lets AI prescribe medicine. Autonomous cardiologists are coming. If you are a practicing dentist reading that between hygiene checks, crown seats, and an insurance
April 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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, treatment planning tools, insurance workflows, and patient communication systems. Now Utah has given everyone in healthcare something much bigger to chew on. Utah approved a pilot program allowing an AI system from Doctronic to renew certain existing prescriptions without a physician signing off
May 27, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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denials, and real-time insurance eligibility verification. Practices using the platform report improved diagnostic confidence, earlier issue detection, better patient education and engagement, higher case acceptance rates, and tangible production gains. It's widely adopted by DSOs and solo practices
February 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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question - How best to search with AI? If I ask "use only published literature" will it? I know Principal Dental Insurance has started. You now have to submit x rays for all fillings. Prepare for the denials. I have been taking photos mid procedure for years to prevent denials. I just did this #14...x-ray
April 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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notes. Verifying insurance. Classifying images. Useful, but limited. The next phase is orchestration. Instead of optimizing isolated steps, AI begins coordinating the entire workflow. Documentation gets validated in real time. Imaging is checked before it causes downstream errors. Eligibility
May 01, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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is wasted. #1 answer was time spent trying to verify insurance benefits. Excited to see the launch of your product! We are working hard. Our benefits eligibility is basically done and quite a few have real time info which means you can confirm plan on the phone and not waste a follow up call to confirm
May 06, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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Every few months, a headline screams that AI is breaking health insurance, or cracking dental insurance, or destroying private practice. It makes for great clicks. It also makes for lousy calibration. Dentists are hearing more stories about denials, documentation requests, and automated reviews
February 25, 2026
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that requires it? If the answer is yes, you can have a problem. And here is where things get weird. You can be fully compliant with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, have a signed BAA, use an approved vendor, and still lose this case. HIPAA governs how data is handled. It does
May 27, 2026
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per employee Time Wasted on Insurance Verification and Claims 15-30 minutes per patient 20-40+ hours per week per staff member (often 50% of their workweek ) 27-35% of claim denials caused by verification errors Overall dental claim denial rate: 15% Staff Cost Reality Average full-time front-desk
April 08, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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in dental and medical practices, including insurance eligibility verification, claim processing, payment posting, denial handling, and appeals. Foji provides specialized AI agents such as: VerifiAI for realtime insurance eligibility checks, ClaimSync for generating and submitting claims, DenialGuard
December 23, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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% annually, and incorporates monthly data from 70+ payers covering 225,000 dentists, 189,000 locations, and 110 million insured patients. I think we all saw this type of thing coming. The insurance companies will start weaponizing AI programs as an excuse to deny claims. Once you get the denial, you
September 20, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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. The danger is that it will define the problem before the clinician has independently thought through the case. Over time that shifts judgment, confidence, and authority. Insurers will love that. Standardized AI-generated reports make audits easier, denials easier, and preauthorization more automatable
March 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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services, another 'game-changing' software, but the same old chaos keeps coming back. Large DSOs are finally breaking that cycle. They're not hiring more people or buying another half-baked dashboard. They're turning to artificial intelligence that can actually read, understand, and post insurance
January 29, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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-hours work, fewer chart audits, and better compliance. Economically, AI will streamline the front desk. Dynamic scheduling, follow-ups, insurance claims with supporting images and radiographs will be handled faster and more accurately than any human team. Denials will fall. Recare will tighten
September 12, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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. It is a bundle of tasks, and AI will hit those tasks unevenly. Diagnosis, treatment planning, radiographic interpretation, insurance narratives, charting, and patient communication are all being rapidly augmented. Some of that is already happening with companies like Pearl and Overjet. But the core
March 30, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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Hey everyone, Quick question for the practice owners and OMs who are tired of the same nightmare every single morning: Your front desk opens the schedule at 8 AM. Half the patients have stale insurance info. Someone spends the next 2 hours on hold, clicking through payer portals, faxing
March 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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. Those are four different problems that just happen to use the same technology. That should feel very familiar to dentists. When bonding came out, it was not one issue. It was materials, technique, isolation, insurance coding, and long term failure rates all at once. When implants became mainstream
March 19, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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from dentists. It will come from: Insurance companies Large DSOs Malpractice carriers Once they start saying: 'We expect documentation supported by AI tools' 'We offer premium discounts for AI-assisted diagnostics' 'We deny claims where risk wasn't flagged' That's when this changes fast
March 23, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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drawn at Quest Diagnostics locations. There is no physician visit, no insurance, and no traditional doctor-patient interaction. Customers receive an AI-generated summary, reviewed by a clinician, explaining their results and suggesting next steps, including lifestyle changes and supplements. Supporters
January 09, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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, treatment plans, intraoral photos, CBCT scans, email threads, text messages with staff, insurance narratives, and patient communication logs can all come under a microscope if a case goes sideways. AI did not create that reality. It just gave us one more place to say something careless. That is the first
March 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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About 2 months ago, being without a front desk employee, I decided to give Stratus a try to help close the gap on entering the data for our insurance benefits and eligibility in Opendental. Previously, It was quite the challenge to keep up and we would often just see the patient, treat the patient
August 04, 2025
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the phone, whether it is for an insurance company, a doctors office, or a pizza joint. Just keep in mind you may loose patients because you are being cheap about your receptionist, for example Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I was trying to call the ophthalmologist office back after I
February 11, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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, and lifestyle data rather than just general internet-style answers. OpenAI emphasizes that it's not a diagnostic or treatment tool, but instead a way to help users understand test results, prep for doctor visits, interpret trends over time, get diet or exercise insights, and explore insurance trade
January 07, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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, insurance narratives, review of prior radiographs, drafting post op instructions, and generating patient education materials are low risk, high leverage tasks. AI is excellent at digesting large volumes of data and turning them into readable summaries. It is not yet a reliable autonomous triage clinician
March 03, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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to validate performance before the AI handles renewals autonomously. Doctronic says its model matched physician plans over 99 percent of the time in internal comparisons and carries malpractice insurance like a physician would. Supporters see it as a way to improve access and adherence, especially
January 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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coordinatorthat helps patientsbetween visits explaining their treatment, insurance, and financing in a way that actually gets them to say yes. Were seeingover 30% increases in treatment acceptance and completionin our first offices and now were opening up10 early user spotsfor dentists who want to try it first. If youre interested, drop a comment or DM me! Early users getdiscounted pricingand full access to all future features and wed love your input as we grow.
July 02, 2025
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does that. I actually agree with this completely. the technology just isn't there yet I totally understand this. AI is hard to work with in general. At Stratus AI, the AI communicates with the insurance companies to gather full breakdowns instead of with customers. Using AI in this way is very
August 14, 2025
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to another one I would but the potential loss of data in the transfer is not worth it. I am hoping the next update corrects the horrific issues but my faith in Patterson Eaglesoft has tanked. They just do not seem to care about the dentist and what we need clinically. They are focused on insurance
October 12, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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. Getting a robot to do a filling for 300k versus you do it with a 20$ assistant and a matrix band makes no sense when insurance pays you 100$. The return of income makes no sense. medicine on the other hand have price tags in the hundreds of thousands which recaptures their investment Your point
July 15, 2025
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and advice from AI. Future is exiting Stratus AI is using AI to help dental offices! Stratus uses AI to call insurance companies to gather fully custom breakdown forms. Offices are saving lots of time because they no longer need to call into the insurance companies to gather very specific information
October 08, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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the websites, reviews, etc. of 3-5 clinics before making a decision. In contrast, AI is already starting to enable hyper-personalization in search. You can tell ChatGPT to find you a dentist that takes your insurance, is under 2 miles away, does root canals, has availability this week, and even more
December 11, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
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