+15Practice managers, owners, and financial admins, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
How do you currently calculate practitioner pay in your practice, and what challenges do you face in this process?
Share your insights on how Dentally could help make this task more efficient and hassle-free 💡
It will be interesting to see how practices are making payments to practitioners.
This is currently a nightmare for us. We use the practitioner activity report but all the crunching has to be done in Excel, often, the data has to be manipulated to be accurate, for example if antibiotics are put through against the practitioners name when they should not, and patients on a care plan pay £0 but we pay the full ad hoc amount to the practioners so this has to be updated. We also have to manually remove lab and finance costs, as well as set different commission structures for high value treatments.
Considering building an app for this in the future!!
Agree its a nightmare, none of dentally reports seem to be correct. We are hoping MedFin will solve the problem with their API but doesnt seem likely.
+1Agree its a nightmare, none of dentally reports seem to be correct. We are hoping MedFin will solve the problem with their API but doesnt seem likely.
What is MedFin? Is it an associate pay calculation tool?
Associate pay workflows are currently inefficient. We need Dentally to build this functionality directly into the platform to keep data centralised. Although ClinBI is reportedly launching an API-based solution, I’d prefer something directly in Dentally.
This is currently far too time-intensive for our entire team; receptionists, practice manager, and associate dentist.
We too rely on exporting jumbled data to Excel, manipulating the data, and having the dentist manually sign off on each day’s data set. This is currently being done twice a week by our receptionists, adding to their list of critical daily tasks and taking time away from genuine patient interactions.
The optimum solution would be for the clinician to access a concise list of item codes/patients they billed for, and to ‘confirm’ from within Dentally that the data is correct. This confirmation would then be sent to the practice manager/payroll team to be processed.
+9I use the payment allocation report and find it quite easy. However I’ve been doing it this way for 4 years now.
i have educated the dentists to chart anything untoward in a certain way.
We are predominantly Denplan practice and any Denplan fees are lab bills, I’ve educated the dentists only to choose Denplan payment plan in charting, for lab Bills. If something is to pay for use private, ABX or any other payment plan group
We still rely on taking reports to pay clinicians, but the downside is that we also have to pay deposits in advance.
I’ve tried payment allocation, but it’s open to mistakes and time consuming to track especially since it creates individual instances for every treatment item also, there's no option to export a proper report (not all dentists prefer Excel sheets).
+9Ah yes well I don’t rely on it. I have a separate spreadsheet set up that I transfer the data to. ( I do this for 12 clinicians) and find it a lot easier, can usually have all calculations done in half a day then I have a button that exports the files as a pdf and emails out in one go
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