Managing a dental practice requires more than just clinical excellence; it demands a unified and efficient financial operation. For too long, practices have wrestled with disconnected systems—separate processors for patient payments, different portals for insurance verification, and manual reconciliation nightmares. This financial fragmentation leads to claim denials, delayed payments, and massive administrative burdens.
The latest innovations from Curve Dental®, centered around Eligibility+ and Curve Pay, create a unified system for eliminating financial friction, maximizing revenue, and ensuring your practice runs with unprecedented efficiency and predictability.
Ensure Clean Claims and Higher Treatment Acceptance (The Start)
Getting paid starts long before the procedure is complete. Accuracy at the beginning of the revenue cycle is what saves time and revenue at the end, drastically reducing your accounts receivable (A/R).
Step 1: Stop Denials Before They Start with AI Verification (Eligibility+)
The days of staff manually checking dozens of insurance portals are over. Eligibility+ is Curve’s AI-powered, code-level insurance verification tool. It eliminates wasted staff time and transforms the patient-provider conversation:
- Flexible Up-to-Date Eligibility Checks: The power of Eligibility+ is its timing flexibility. Staff can perform benefits checks proactively days before the appointment or at the time of the appointment. This ensures that estimates are always based on the most current benefit details available from the payer.
- SmartSync Technology for Data Integrity: Eligibility+ uses SmartSync technology to automatically detect discrepancies between the insurance payer's data and the information currently saved in the patient's record in Curve. When a difference is found (e.g., a policy number change or updated group ID), your team is alerted and can choose to immediately automate the eligibility information update in the patient's record, ensuring your internal data is always accurate.
- Real-time Coverage Clarity: Beyond simple eligibility, Eligibility+ provides a breakdown of benefits tailored to the specific procedure codes you plan to use. This means you see the patient's actual estimated coverage and remaining benefits before the chairside conversation.
- Higher Case Acceptance: By giving patients accurate, upfront out-of-pocket estimates, you remove financial uncertainty. This transparency and confidence make it significantly easier for patients to say "yes" to necessary treatment, leading to immediate production gains.
- Hours Saved: Practices using Eligibility+ have reported cutting the time spent on manual insurance verification by up to 90%.
Step 2: Streamline Claims, Denials, and Appeals
Once treatment is accepted, Curve's automation ensures the claim process is clean and fast:
- Accurate Coding: Use pre-attached CDT codes and appointment tags to ensure all services are billed correctly the first time, preventing common coding-related denials.
- Smart Claims & Integrated Attachments: Curve automatically provides alerts for required documentation—such as narratives, radiographs, or perio charts. You can submit these attachments directly within the platform alongside the electronic claim. There’s no need to switch platforms, reducing the back-and-forth common with insurers.
- Efficient Denial Management: Automated ERA processing helps your team quickly interpret and act on Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) statements. Curve identifies issues and simplifies the correction and resubmission process, ensuring you recover payments that might otherwise be written off.
Accelerate Cash Flow with Integrated Payments (The Finish)
With the insurance portion handled, the focus shifts to collecting the patient portion quickly and without administrative hassle.
Step 3: Get Paid Faster with Curve Pay: Integrated Processing and Next-Day Payouts
The traditional billing landscape forces practices to act as payment processors, often dealing with hidden fees and days-long reconciliation. Curve Pay solves this by embedding payments directly into your practice management software, creating a true all-in-one financial hub.
Stop wasting time managing multiple vendor contracts and complex fee structures. The biggest benefit is speed: Curve Pay delivers next-day payouts, dramatically improving your cash flow and giving you immediate access to the revenue you earn.
Step 4: Eliminate Reconciliation with Automated Payment Posting
Manual payment posting is one of the biggest time sinks in any office. With Curve Pay, that work disappears. Payments processed through Curve Pay post and allocate automatically to the correct invoices. This drastically reduces manual entry errors and allows your staff to focus on patient care, not paperwork, potentially saving your team up to 10 hours a week on administrative tasks and reconciliation.
Boost Collections with Modern Patient Options
Patient responsibility for costs is rising, requiring practices to offer modern, convenient ways to pay. Curve Pay modernizes collections to meet patients where they are.
Step 5: Modernize Collections with Digital Payment Flexibility
Make payment effortless for patients by offering secure, flexible methods, all supported by Curve Pay:
- Secure Payment Links: Easily send patient-friendly electronic statements via text-to-pay or email-to-pay. Payments are made with a single click and auto-post back to the patient ledger.
- Flexible Financing: Boost case acceptance by offering modern payment options like Buy Now, Pay Later (Affirm), giving patients the flexibility they need for larger treatment plans.
- Universal Acceptance: Accept all major credit/debit cards, as well as HSA/FSA cards, and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. You can also securely store cards on file for recurring or future billing.
Conclusion: The All-in-One Advantage
Mastering dental billing isn't just about compliance; it's about empowering your practice to achieve long-term financial health and provide the best patient experience possible. By implementing Curve Pay and Eligibility+, you eliminate fragmented systems and transform your financial operations into a predictable engine of efficiency and growth.
Practices that have implemented integrated billing solutions provided with Curve Dental software have reported up to a 30% improvement in collections.
Would you like to eliminate fragmented systems and get paid faster? Discover how Curve Pay and Eligibility+ can bring next-day payouts and unified financial control to your practice.
