Gentry Winn

EARLY ACCESS ONLY You can now have Dentrix Ascend verify coverage eligibility automatically for secondary insurance plans. This functionality can help eliminate manual lookups for secondary plans in payer portals, reduce coordination-of-benefits (COB) rework, and decrease secondary claim denials. The automatic eligibility verifications occur nightly. Also, from eligibility responses, you can import secondary insurance plan … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Today, one right (View and Edit Schedule Templates) covers the whole Schedule Templates area: opening the page, seeing and changing template blocks, appointment reasons, turning online booking on or off, and dragging templates on the calendar. This change splits that into seven rights so you can give someone view access without giving … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Important Note: An updated acquisition agent may be required for features in this release. For instructions on checking for updates, refer to the “Updating the acquisition agent” Help topic. Preferred Device Settings You can now manage the preferred devices for all users in your entire organization from one location. Key capabilities: To … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY The Aged Receivables Report can now be grouped by provider. To run the report, grouping it by provider 1. Go to Home > Aged Receivables. The Aged Receivables page opens. On the left panel, there is now a Group By option. By default, Guarantor is selected, so the existing behavior and look … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Previously, for a patient form that had been flagged as requiring a provider review and had been requested on demand, when it was completed, it was received with a “Disabled” status, so the provider review workflow was skipped. Now, for a patient form that has been flagged as requiring a provider review … Read more

Released 10/1/26 The following security rights have been added to control the managing of custom imaging procedures in Dentrix Ascend Imaging:

EARLY ACCESS ONLY When a patient describes what they need to Gemini in Google AI Mode (such as “dentist near me who can see my son Saturday morning, takes Delta Dental”) Google returns live, bookable scheduling slots inline. The patient selects the booking slot that works best for them and is taken to your online … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Ortho payments often come in stages, not all at once. The ortho payout schedule tells you when to expect each insurance payment and how much it will be. You can set a schedule on the insurance plan, on an individual patient, or both. A patient schedule overrides the plan schedule for that … Read more

EARLY ACCESS ONLY The Provider Production & Collections Report is intended to replace the workflow in Power Reporting for calculating provider compensation. This new report presents procedure-level production and collection totals grouped by provider, combining financial integrity from the Provider A/R Totals Report with procedure and patient details. The Provider Production & Collections Report provides … Read more

Released 9/28/26 You can now export a fee schedule directly from the Fee Schedules page in Dentrix Ascend. Previously, the only way to export a fee schedule was from Power Reporting. To export a fee schedule 1. On the Settings menu, select Fee Schedules. The Fee Schedules page appears. 2. On the left, select a … Read more