EARLY ACCESS ONLY If you are using Dentrix Ascend Pay for credit card processing, to easily offset credit card processing fees, we are making it possible for you to have surcharges added automatically to credit card payments that you process in office using a terminal. CURRENT PHASE The following functionality is included in this phase … Read more
EARLY ACCESS ONLY You can now change an insurance plan’s coverage dates even if doing so causes existing claims to fall outside the new date range. This allows you to add or end insurance (during intake, carrier change, or coordination order update) without first having to delete or resolve every related claim. Previously, you could … Read more
EARLY ACCESS ONLY Medicaid is the payer of last resort, but the coordination order may be set up incorrectly in Dentrix Ascend so Medicaid is not the last plan in the coverage order for a patient’s insurance plans. If a patient has multiple insurance plans, one of those plans is a Medicaid plan, but that … Read more
EARLY ACCESS ONLY You can now quickly close a day on your calendar. To quickly close a day 1. On the Calendar page (go to Schedule > Calendar), navigate to a day that you want to close. 2. On the Actions menu, select Close day. An all-day event for every operatory is created. The event … Read more
EARLY ACCESS ONLY If your office has a subscription for Eligibility Pro, and no payer connections are set up, an Eligibility Pro onboarding panel appears at the top of the Insurance Eligibility page (go to Schedule > Insurance Eligibility). The Eligibility Pro onboarding panel explains the benefits of Eligibility Pro and provides a button to … 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. Enhancements This release provides the following enhancements. 3Shape to 3Shape Unite Any user interface element that had “3Shape” in its name is now … Read more
The “Apply per treatment area” option for a frequency exception for an insurance plan’s coverage table (see the release notes for “Treatment Area Option for Frequency Exception”) can now appear in the following areas of Dentrix Ascend:
Released 6/17/26 Provide quick feedback on generated notes with a thumbs up or down to improve summary output over time.
Released 6/17/26 Easily remove unfinished voice notes before they are saved to the patient record. Providers can delete drafts at any time, ensuring only finalized and complete notes are stored in the patient’s record. Note: Released for all Dentrix Ascend packages: Essential, Pro, and Accelerate.
EARLY ACCESS ONLY Per location, you can now designate a “house” provider and automatically assign selected procedure codes to that provider so that production dollars are credited to that provider when the specified procedures are posted unless an exception has been designated. For example, you can have imaging procedure codes automatically credit production to the house provider (representing the … Read more