OpenDental
Automate dental billing, insurance verification, and claims follow-up for OpenDental practices
Sarva connects to OpenDental to automate dental insurance verification, claim scrubbing against dental-specific payer edits, and claims follow-up, addressing the dual medical-and-dental billing complexity many practices run into with cross-coded procedures.
Why OpenDental + Sarva
Sarva connects to OpenDental to automate dental insurance verification, claim scrubbing against dental-specific payer edits, and claims follow-up, addressing the dual medical-and-dental billing complexity many practices run into with cross-coded procedures. Dental billing carries its own edit logic, its own claim forms, and its own timing quirks around annual maximums and waiting periods, on top of an increasing amount of medical-dental cross-coding for procedures like sleep apnea appliances or trauma-related work. OpenDental practices handling that mix by hand lose time to insurance verification calls and claim rework that automation handles faster and more consistently.
What Sarva Automates in OpenDental
Insurance Verification
Sarva checks dental benefits, remaining annual maximums, and waiting periods ahead of scheduled procedures, so a patient's actual coverage is known before treatment, not discovered at the claim stage.
Claim Scrubbing
Sarva checks claims against dental-specific and, where relevant, medical-dental cross-coding edits before submission, catching mismatches that generic medical scrubbers aren't built to see.
Claims Follow-Up
Sarva tracks claim status across dental payers and flags anything unpaid past your practice's normal turnaround, instead of a front-desk staffer working it into a busy day.
Denial Management
When a dental claim is denied, Sarva classifies the reason, missing narrative, frequency limitation, or coordination-of-benefits issue, and routes it for the specific fix it needs.
How Practices Use OpenDental + Sarva
Insurance Verification
Sarva checks dental benefits, remaining annual maximums, and waiting periods ahead of scheduled procedures, so a patient's actual coverage is known before treatment, not discovered at the claim stage.
Claim Scrubbing
Sarva checks claims against dental-specific and, where relevant, medical-dental cross-coding edits before submission, catching mismatches that generic medical scrubbers aren't built to see.
Claims Follow-Up
Sarva tracks claim status across dental payers and flags anything unpaid past your practice's normal turnaround, instead of a front-desk staffer working it into a busy day.
Denial Management
When a dental claim is denied, Sarva classifies the reason, missing narrative, frequency limitation, or coordination-of-benefits issue, and routes it for the specific fix it needs.
Connect in Minutes
Connect Your OpenDental Account
Authenticate Sarva with your OpenDental instance using secure API credentials. Setup is fully guided and takes under 10 minutes. Your data is encrypted end-to-end throughout the connection process.
Configure Your Workflow Triggers
Choose which OpenDental events trigger Sarva automations — new appointments, finalized encounters, received denials, or aging AR thresholds. Use pre-built templates or configure custom logic for your practice.
Go Live & Monitor
Sarva begins processing real OpenDental data immediately. Monitor every automated action, claim status, and workflow outcome from Sarva's unified revenue intelligence dashboard.
Built for Healthcare. Built for OpenDental.
Common Questions
Does Sarva handle medical-dental cross-coding claims?
Yes. For procedures that can bill to medical or dental coverage, Sarva applies the relevant cross-coding rules to route and code the claim correctly rather than defaulting to one payer type.
Is this built for a general or specialty dental practice?
Sarva's automation adapts to your practice's actual procedure mix and payer contracts, whether that's general dentistry, oral surgery, orthodontics, or a specialty practice with its own coding patterns.
Does Sarva replace our front-desk insurance verification process?
It automates the repetitive part, checking eligibility and benefits electronically ahead of the visit, so front-desk staff spend less time on the phone with payers and more time with patients.
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