Enter your practice details below to see a conservative estimate of your annual losses to manual insurance verification, claim denials, and billing errors.
This calculator uses industry benchmarks to estimate a conservative floor for billing-related losses. The actual number for your practice is likely higher.
Staff time cost: Hourly staff time (6-8 hrs/week × ~$18/hr average) × 52 weeks. This assumes verification is done via phone or portal, which takes 15-25 min per patient.
Denial cost: Based on ADA data showing ~15% of dental claims denied on first submission. Denied claims require rework (staff time), delay payment by 60-90 days, and sometimes result in partial or zero payment.
Billing error cost: Coding errors, incorrect patient responsibility calculations, and missing preauthorization flags result in rework, patient disputes, and write-offs.
The calculator uses industry data showing small dental practices lose $12,000-$15,000 per year per dentist to manual insurance verification (staff time + rework from denials + billing errors). This is a conservative estimate based on ADA data and RCM industry benchmarks. The number reflects hours spent on hold, data entry errors, claim rework, and patient billing disputes.
The real cost has three components: (1) Staff time: 6-8 hours per week on hold with carriers or navigating portals, at $15-20/hr = $5,000-8,000/year, (2) Claim denials: 15% of submitted claims denied on first submission, requiring rework that delays payment by 60-90 days, (3) Patient billing disputes: unexpected patient bills lead to disputes, write-offs, and sometimes lost patients. Industry studies show small practices lose $12,000-$50,000/year to these combined effects.
Most small dental practices (1-5 dentists) see a 6-12x return on investment from billing automation. At $249/month ($2,988/year), a practice spending $12,000/year on manual verification losses would save approximately $9,000 net per year, equating to roughly 4x ROI. Practices spending more on rework and denials often see 10-15x ROI. The calculator uses $12K per dentist as a conservative baseline.
Yes. The calculator generates a shareable URL with your inputs encoded in the URL parameters (e.g., ?dentists=3&hours=8&claim=450). You can bookmark this URL, share it in an email to your office manager, or paste it in a team Slack. Each unique URL preserves the calculator state so whoever clicks it sees the same results you saw.
The $249/month DentLedger Pro plan includes unlimited individual insurance verifications, unlimited batch verifications (up to 100 patients per batch), AI-powered claims submission, automated payment posting, denial management and appeals, real-time dashboard and analytics, and support for Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Open Dental. There are no per-verification fees, no setup costs, and no long-term contracts.
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