Dental practices collect from three places at once: PPO insurance EFTs, patient cards at the front desk, and in-house membership plan drafts. Lemma reconciles all three against one ledger, then handles the lab invoices, supply orders, and equipment notes on the way out.
Book a demoProduction, collections, and write-offs are three different numbers. Lemma is built so your office manager stops reconciling them by hand.
A single PPO deposit can cover a dozen claims. Lemma posts it against the remittance line by line, so the contractual write-off and any short pay are visible per claim.
Crown, aligner, and implant labs invoice per case. Paying 40 lab invoices a month costs nothing, and every payment carries its case reference into your ledger.
Dental receivables sit 20 to 45 days. The balance waiting on them earns 1.75% APY automatically, with no transfer to a savings tier.
The payers that still mail checks send them to your Lemma address. We scan, deposit same day, and post the EOB. $2.50 per check.
Delta Dental, Cigna, and Aetna each pay by EFT on their own remittance cycle. Patients pay at the desk by card or ACH. In-house membership plans draft on whatever day the patient enrolled. Three channels, three descriptors on your statement, and none of them carry a claim number.
The write-off between billed production and the contracted fee schedule means the deposit almost never equals the claim. So someone in your office spends the afternoon reconstructing which claims a single EFT covered, one EOB at a time.
In-house savings plans bill on each patient's own anniversary date, so plan revenue trickles in every day of the month. Lemma tags those drafts so recurring plan revenue stays separable from fee-for-service collections.
Because the deposit reflects the negotiated fee, not the billed amount, an underpayment looks like a normal payment. Line-level posting surfaces short pays the day the money lands rather than at month end.
Hygiene collects small and often, restorative and implant cases collect large and late. Seeing both streams separately is what makes a slow month diagnosable instead of a surprise.
Yes. Insurance EFTs arrive with no per-transaction fee and patient card and ACH collections settle into the same account. Both post against the patient ledger, so the front desk is not reconciling two systems against each other.
Membership drafts are tagged as recurring plan revenue and reported apart from fee-for-service collections. That lets you track plan retention and per-visit production independently, even though the money lands in the same account.
No. Each PC gets its own entity account inside Lemma, with its own routing number and lockbox address, plus an automated cash sweep to the parent entity. Adding an entity takes about five minutes.
Wires for equipment and surgical suppliers are flat rate, so a $90,000 chair purchase costs the same to send as a small one. Recurring note payments run over free ACH.
