Dental front desk: eligibility checks without the re-keying
OpenAdapt looks up a patient's coverage in a payer portal and carries the answer into your practice system, after a demonstration, on a front-desk computer. It stops when the member doesn't match. Our measured look-up ran on openIMIS, an open-source insurance system, with synthetic members. We qualify the workflow on your own portal first.
Updated 2026-10-18
What it would do
- Your staff open the payer portal and sign in, including any sign-in codes.
- OpenAdapt looks up the patient by member ID and date of birth.
- It reads coverage and benefits, or a claim's status.
- It carries the answer into your practice system or worksheet, after a person approves the save.
- If the member doesn't match, or the portal shows something it never saw, it stops and leaves the case for a person.
For comparison, a provider-side eligibility check in the US takes about 8 minutes by portal and 16 by phone, by the 2024 CAQH Index (medical practices, not dental).
What we've tested
On openIMIS, an open-source insurance system, with synthetic members: 3 of 3 active policies confirmed and 3 of 3 expired policies stopped, with no active policy stopped by mistake. On an expired policy the enquiry screen still shows a thumbs-up next to the service, which is easy to misread as covered; the read of the record said ineligible, so it stopped.
We qualify each workflow on your own portal and practice system before it's used. The dental eligibility process.
Where it runs
On a computer at your practice, inside portal sessions your staff open. Portal passwords stay on that computer and aren't written into the recording. Security.
Where this stands
Measured on openIMIS (open source) with synthetic members. We qualify the workflow on your own portal first.
Free to run locally. Team $499 a month. Healthcare and enterprise qualification sprints from $15k. Pricing.
Sources
- CAQH Index 2024 (data year 2023), US medical: an eligibility check takes 8 minutes by portal and 16 by phone; a claim-status check takes 10 by portal and 25 by phone; a manual claim submission takes 12 minutes, an electronic one 5. Provider-side figures.
- OpenAdapt on openIMIS 25.10 (open-source insurance system, not a US payer portal), July 2026, synthetic members: 3 of 3 active policies confirmed, 3 of 3 expired policies stopped, 0 active policies stopped by mistake. Checked by a read-only database query of the policy, product and dates.
See it on your process
Bring one task your team types every day. We'll tell you whether it fits, and what a test on your own system would cover.