Patient Communication Campaigns

EARLY ACCESS ONLY With campaigns, you can now reach specific patient segments to promote unscheduled treatment, send benefit expiration reminders, or fill last-minute appointment gaps to help you achieve overall practice growth. You can now send targeted messages (by text or email) to patient segments. You can instantly execute a campaign or schedule one in … Read more

Imaging 176

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Important Note: An updated acquisition agent is required for a feature in this release. For instructions on checking for updates, refer to the “Updating the acquisition agent” Help topic. Enhancements This release provides the following enhancements. Displaying Carestream Devices First The acquisition device menu can now display Carestream devices first. All other … Read more

New Symbol for Predeterminations on ERAs

EARLY ACCESS ONLY When a predetermination is received and appears on the ERA Payments tab of the Bulk/ERA Insurance Payments page, a predetermination symbol (instead of the zero-dollar symbol) appears for that predetermination. The symbol for a predetermination is a paper with a magnifying glass. This symbol appears to the left of each applicable patient’s … Read more

Direct Link to Jarvis Analytics

EARLY ACCESS ONLY If you are subscribed to both Dentrix Ascend and Jarvis Analytics, you have two separate logins. Now, you can quickly navigate from Dentrix Ascend to Jarvis Analytics without having to log in to Jarvis Analytics. There is now an Analytics option on the Home menu in Dentrix Ascend. The Analytics option appears … Read more

Future Due Payment Plans

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Future due payment plans introduce a streamlined way for practices to schedule and collect patient payments over time with improved accuracy, automation, and visibility. Designed specifically to support offices that manage long‑term orthodontic treatment plans, this feature allows practices to collect a down payment at plan creation and automatically charge future‑dated monthly … Read more

Real-time Eligibility Notifications

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Each user can choose to receive real‑time notifications when payers respond to eligibility requests. This can reduce uncertainty, prevent repeated clicks, and improve workflow clarity. To subscribe to eligibility notifications 1. On the User menu, select Notifications. The Notifications page appears. 2. Select the Show insurance eligibility check notifications checkbox. To request … Read more

Refunds by Line Item

EARLY ACCESS ONLY When you refund a payment, you can now apply a specific refund amount per charge that is associated with that payment. You can use this new refund method if you need to refund amounts only for certain charges that are associated with the payment. This can help ensure accurate provider production and … Read more

Automatic Updating of Treatment Plans After Changing Write-off Option

EARLY ACCESS ONLY Since the release of the “Posting Primary Max Allowable Fees” feature, an improvement has been made that allows you the choose to have Dentrix Ascend automatically update the amounts for all treatment-planned procedures to match the corresponding fees in the applicable contracted fee schedules (assuming the patients have in-network insurance plans with … Read more