🦷 What Every New Dental Practice Needs to Know About Insurance Billing

✅ Understanding the Dental Insurance Billing Process

At its core, dental insurance billing involves several critical steps:

1. Insurance Verification

2. Submitting Accurate Claims

3. Payment Posting

4. Claims Follow-Up

5. Fee Schedule Management

6. Provider Credentialing

Each step plays a vital role in ensuring your office gets paid on time and in full.

🔍 Insurance Verification: Don’t Skip This Step

Before the patient even sits in the chair, you need to know exactly what their insurance plan covers. That means verifying:

• Eligibility

• Waiting periods

• Frequencies

• Annual maximums

• Downgrades and exclusions

Skipping insurance verification is one of the top reasons for delayed or denied claims.

💡 How Remote Dental Billers helps:
Our team provides accurate and timely insurance breakdowns, so you know what’s covered, what to collect, and how to properly schedule and bill each patient.

🧾 Submitting Clean Claims the First Time

When you’re starting out, it's tempting to just "send and hope"—but that approach leads to rejections and delays. To avoid this, every claim must include:

• Correct CDT codes

• Complete documentation

• Narrative when required

• Attachments (like X-rays or photos)

💡 Remote Dental Billers ensures that all claims are submitted clean and complete—reducing denials and speeding up payment.

💰 Payment Posting: Know What You’re Paid

Once insurance sends payment, it must be accurately posted in your software. This step helps:

• Track outstanding balances

• Identify underpayments

• Send correct patient statements

Manual posting errors can hurt your bottom line and create confusion at checkout.

💡 Our experts handle payment posting with accuracy, helping you track revenue and identify missing income quickly.

📞 Claims Follow-Up: Don’t Let Revenue Slip Through the Cracks

Just because you sent a claim doesn’t mean you’ll get paid. Outstanding claims require consistent follow-up and communication with insurance companies.

Too many new practices lose revenue by failing to follow up or giving up too soon.

💡 Remote Dental Billers has a dedicated team that follows up on every unpaid or denied claim—making sure no money is left on the table.

📊 Updating Fee Schedules

Insurance companies often change their allowable fee schedules annually. If you don’t update yours, you risk:

• Undercharging patients

• Overestimating reimbursements

• Errors in patient estimates

💡 We stay current on payer updates and adjust your fee schedules regularly to ensure accurate billing.

📝 Credentialing: Get Enrolled & Get Paid

If you’re not credentialed properly with insurance carriers, they won’t pay your claims. The process can take weeks or months and involves a mountain of paperwork.

💡 Remote Dental Billers simplifies credentialing so you can start accepting insurance and getting paid faster.

🌟 Why New Practices Choose Remote Dental Billers

When you're building your practice, the last thing you need is to be buried in insurance problems. That’s why new offices trust Remote Dental Billers to:

✅ Streamline billing
✅ Improve collections
✅ Reduce denials
✅ Eliminate billing stress
✅ Save time for patient care

We work with all major practice management systems and tailor our services to match your practice’s needs from day one.

📞 Ready to Start Your Practice Strong?

You only get one chance to launch your dental office right—and billing can make or break your early cash flow.

Let us be your back-office billing team so you can focus on delivering great patient care.

📞 Call us today: (760) 284-5402
📧 Email: info@remotedentalbillers.com
🌐 Visit: www.remotedentalbillers.com