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Provide remittance access, posting rules, reconciliation steps, and approval authority for adjustments and refunds.
Reconcile before approval
Payment-posting preparation
Organize remittance records and posting exceptions for your practice’s authorized billing review.
Book a free consultationScope, access, and coverage are agreed with your team.
The day-to-day work
A clear queue. A useful handoff.
Define the recurring work and the evidence your team needs to review it. These building blocks become a role-specific operating plan.
- Collect approved remittance records
- Match references to claim and account records
- Flag unmatched or inconsistent items
- Prepare posting and adjustment review lists
What comes back to your team
Work you can see and review.
Remittance index
A working record with source references, current status, and the person responsible for the next step.
Unmatched-payment report
A focused view of missing inputs, unanswered questions, and items that need your decision.
Adjustment approval queue
A dated handoff that distinguishes completed work from pending review and unresolved exceptions.
Put the role into practice
From the first brief to the final check.
A practical handoff
A remittance contains an adjustment that does not match the practice’s approved posting rules. The assistant flags it for review and keeps the item unresolved rather than forcing the balance to match.
Illustrative workflow, not a client case study.Check the work before closing the loop.
Check payer, claim, service date, totals, and approval status. Reconcile against the source before final posting or release.
Your systems, your permissions
Fit the role to your environment.
Tool familiarity is considered when defining the role. Your team approves every platform, access level, and source of truth.
DentrixOpen DentalEaglesoftExcel
Platform names describe possible working environments, not endorsements or a promise of certification.
Inside the responsibility
What payment-posting preparation looks like in practice.
Organize remittance records and posting exceptions for your practice’s authorized billing review. The scope below connects each recurring responsibility to its source information and a checkable working record. Your team confirms the exact steps, templates, and approval limits before work starts.
Collect approved remittance records
Begin with the latest request and its approved source record. Check that the necessary information is present, identify the owner, and clarify conflicting details before making an update.
Working output: Remittance index. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Match references to claim and account records
Use the agreed template or checklist to carry out this task. Record what was checked and the date of the action so another team member can understand the current position.
Working output: Unmatched-payment report. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Flag unmatched or inconsistent items
Keep this work connected to the wider queue. Note dependencies and unanswered questions, and use the agreed escalation route when the next step requires a decision.
Working output: Adjustment approval queue. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Prepare posting and adjustment review lists
Complete the task only when its agreed checks have passed. If an input is missing or an approval is pending, keep that status visible rather than treating the item as finished.
Working output: Remittance index. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
A handoff you can act on
Keep ready work separate from unresolved work.
A remittance contains an adjustment that does not match the practice’s approved posting rules. The assistant flags it for review and keeps the item unresolved rather than forcing the balance to match.
Ready for review
The agreed task is complete and the supporting information is available in your approved system. Attach or link the relevant record and identify any final reviewer before closing the item.
Review against: Check payer, claim, service date, totals, and approval status. Reconcile against the source before final posting or release.
Waiting on an input
Name the missing information, where it was requested, and who is expected to supply it. Keep a follow-up date visible. An unanswered request should not disappear into a completed-work total.
Starting requirements: Provide remittance access, posting rules, reconciliation steps, and approval authority for adjustments and refunds.
Needs your decision
Summarize the exception and the information already checked. Ask a specific question and route it to the authorized person. Keep the original source intact while the decision is pending.
Approval boundary: No independent write-offs, refunds, funds movement, patient liability decisions, or financial approvals.
Set the role up well
Agree what good work means before the first handoff.
Access and examples
Provide individual, approved access to the systems used for this responsibility. Share a completed example, an incomplete example, the relevant template, and a named reviewer. Sensitive working records belong in those systems, not in a public inquiry form.
Possible working environments include Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, Excel. Tool access and familiarity are confirmed as part of the role brief.
Review and workload measures
Agree which measures are useful for this queue: completed items, items awaiting an input, age of unresolved work, and corrections requested by the reviewer. Review these together with actual examples; volume alone does not establish that work is accurate.
Set response expectations from your operating needs. Coverage, turnaround targets, and the amount of work assigned are agreed separately rather than assumed from the service name.
Before you start
A few useful questions.
What should we prepare for payment-posting preparation?
Provide remittance access, posting rules, reconciliation steps, and approval authority for adjustments and refunds.
How will we know what is complete?
Check payer, claim, service date, totals, and approval status. Reconcile against the source before final posting or release.
Which decisions remain with us?
No independent write-offs, refunds, funds movement, patient liability decisions, or financial approvals.
Can the role work in our existing tools?
We scope the role around your approved systems, including environments such as Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft. Access, training, and the final tool requirements are confirmed before the role begins.
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