Dental practices planning treatment across several visits, with optional patient engagement
For dental centres
Keep dental charts, treatment plans and the patient record together. Help your team follow care across visits, explain the planned work and handle billing within the selected Care plan.
Illustrative example: a phased treatment plan
This example uses synthetic data. A patient, Omar Hale, has findings on several teeth. The dentist records the tooth and periodontal charts at the first visit, then builds a treatment plan in phases. Each plan item carries its tooth and site and is priced from the facility’s service price list. Reception books a single item, or a whole phase, into appointments from the plan. When a procedure is billed, the line carries the tooth and surface, so billing staff see the clinical context behind the charge.
Roles and implementation scope
The dentist owns charting and the plan. Reception books the repeat visits. Billing staff take the plan’s priced services through to the invoice. This page covers the whole practice; the Dental Practice Management page covers the clinical workspace in more detail.
Care Clinics covers outpatient care and cash billing. Choose Care Clinics Pro or Care Hospitals when claims and approvals are part of the workflow, with the Dental clinics add-on for charts and plans. Engage is optional: Leads and pipeline for new enquiries, Campaigns and retention for communication. Imaging is reviewed separately through Radiology, and DICOM viewing is not a connection to a particular dental imaging device.
A realistic demo agenda
- Chart a tooth and a periodontal finding on a synthetic patient.
- Build a phased plan and book one phase into appointments.
- Take a completed procedure through to the invoice, then review the claims scope you need.
- If you plan to use Engage, follow a new patient enquiry and a scheduled campaign.
Your clinicians remain responsible for assessment, treatment decisions and the completeness of the record.
What you open with
A starting selection for your evaluation, not every feature in the chosen plan. Each module shows how it is bought, and a module marked as still being completed is not ready to deploy.
NextHealth Care
10 modules- Patient Registration CA-01 Included in Care Clinics, Care Clinics Pro and Care Hospitals.
- Scheduling & Appointments CA-02 Included in all three Care plans.
- Check-in & Payments CA-03 Included in all three Care plans.
- Clinical Documentation & EMR CA-04 Included in all three Care plans.
- e-Prescribing CA-06 Included in all three Care plans; dispensing and ward administration depend on the relevant modules.
- Outpatient Management CA-08 Included in all three Care plans; connected services depend on enabled modules.
- Billing & Charge Capture CA-16 Included in all three Care plans; insurance claim processing is separately licensed.
- Medical Records Management CA-18 Included in all three Care plans.
- Insurance Claims & Approvals CA-17 Included in Care Clinics Pro and Care Hospitals; available as an add-on to Care Clinics.
- Dental Practice Management CA-21 Available as an add-on to any Care plan.
NextHealth Engage
2 modules- Sales pipeline EN-02 Part of the Leads and pipeline add-on
- Campaigns EN-05 Part of the Campaigns and retention add-on
Build the relationship around the treatment plan
Begin with Care and the Dental clinics add-on, selecting Clinics Pro when insurance claims are part of the workflow. Add Engage core with Leads and pipeline or Campaigns and retention when your team needs to organise new enquiries and relevant communication. Campaigns can be sent or scheduled, but automated recall rules are not available. Add Flow Documents or Quality when policy revisions, supporting documents and internal audits need a more structured review process across the dental centre.
Common questions
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Choose Care Clinics Pro or Care Hospitals with the Dental clinics add-on when claims and approvals are needed. Care Clinics covers outpatient care and cash billing, without the Pro claims scope.
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Yes. The Dental clinics add-on includes tooth and periodontal charts, dental diagrams and phased treatment plans. Use a representative case to review how the team records findings across visits.
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No. Automated recall rules are not available. With the Campaigns and retention add-on, teams can organise audiences and send or schedule campaigns within the supported communication arrangements.
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No device connection is promised here. Radiology supports DICOM viewing, but that is distinct from integration with a named dental imaging device and must be evaluated separately.
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No. The selection combines Care plan capabilities, the Dental clinics add-on and optional Engage scope. Review the commercial mapping with the team before treating the module list as a single entitlement.
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