Billing specialists dedicated to your practice, on your fee schedules and your payer mix, employed by Connext in-country.
If your front desk is chasing insurance companies between patients, you do not have a paperwork problem. You have a staffing one.
Practices rarely lose money on the dentistry. They lose it in the gap between finishing the work and getting paid for it: the claim that went out without its radiograph, the verification nobody had time to run before the patient sat down, the appeal that quietly passed its deadline. A dental billing team is the person whose entire day is that gap. They check the plan before the patient arrives, code the treatment in CDT, send the claim with what the payer needs the first time, work the denial when one comes back, and stay on the balance until it is collected or written off on purpose rather than by accident.
Connext Dental Billing Teams are dedicated specialists who do this all day, inside your practice management software and your ledgers. You keep running the practice. They keep the claims moving.
Quick answer
A dental billing team checks the patient's plan before the appointment, codes the treatment in CDT, sends the claim with the attachments the payer asks for, works the denial when one comes back and follows the balance until it closes. At Connext that work is done by dedicated specialists employed in-country, working inside your practice management software.
TASK 01
Confirms the plan, the annual maximum, the frequency limitations and the waiting periods before the appointment, so the estimate given at the desk is the one the plan honors.
TASK 02
Codes the treatment in CDT and submits the claim with the narrative, radiographs and perio charting the payer requires. A dental claim without its attachment is a denial waiting to happen.
TASK 03
Posts each payment against the right ledger, applies the write-off the contract calls for and flags anything paid below the fee schedule.
TASK 04
Finds out why the claim was denied, then corrects and resubmits it or files the appeal, with the documentation that answers the reason code.
TASK 05
Chases what the plan did not cover, with statements the patient can read without calling the office.
When billing keeps up, nobody notices it. When it does not, the practice starts writing off money it already earned.
Claims go out without the attachment and come back denied. Verifications get skipped, so the treatment plan quoted at the desk is not what the plan pays, and the patient finds out weeks later. Appeals age past the filing deadline and stop being appealable at all. None of it looks like a crisis on any single day, which is why it usually runs for months before anyone adds it up.
Dental billing is not only a revenue problem. It is a records problem with a regulator attached.
The rules keep moving
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changes to the CDT code set took effect on 1 January 2026: 31 new codes, 14 revisions and 6 deletions.
American Dental Association
Payer rules and coding requirements change, and a claim built to last year's rule is a denial. Somebody has to track the change and rebuild the template before it costs you a month of claims.
A dental practice holds protected health information with a fraction of a hospital's IT support. Everyone who touches a ledger is inside that obligation, including anyone you add to the team.
The narrative, the radiograph and the chart note are what defend the code if anyone asks. Coding without them is guessing, and it is the first thing an audit finds.
Where Connext fits
SOC 2 Type II across all four delivery centers, signed Business Associate Agreements for HIPAA, company-provided equipment and secure facilities. Your data is never stored offshore, and the people working your ledgers are employed by Connext in-country rather than contracted out.
Patients call about pain, and they do not wait for office hours to do it.
A missed call at six is a patient who books somewhere else, or an emergency that is worse by morning. Extending the hours is a staffing question long before it is a technology one.
Books appointments, works the recall list and chases the patients who never rebooked, which is the cheapest production a practice can recover.
Answers what the plan covers before the patient sits in the chair, so the front desk is not on hold with a payer while a waiting room fills up.
Connext delivery centers in the Philippines, Colombia, Mexico and India cover the languages your patient base speaks.
You do.
Connext works to the fees and the contracts you have negotiated; we do not negotiate with payers on your behalf.
Your front desk.
The offshore team handles the payer side and prepares the numbers your staff present.
You do.
Adjustments follow the thresholds you set, and anything outside them comes back to you.
Your practice.
The team documents against it inside your software, and it never leaves your system.
