The reports disagree
Run two reports in the practice software and you can get two different answers. It is hard to make a big decision on numbers you do not trust.
User reviewA Dentrix user review on Capterra: "we tend to get different numbers"
For dental practices
Thinking about dropping a PPO? See what it pays you first.
A one-time analysis tool built from your own numbers. For each insurance plan it shows how much you bill, how much you write off, how many patients depend on it, and what leaving could mean.
One-time build · $2,900
35%
of dentists plan to drop out of some insurance networks in 2026. For 2025, 40.7% planned to and 29.3% did.
Why the decision is hard
Write-offs are only half the picture
Your software can show how much you write off for each plan. It cannot show how many of those patients would stay if you left.
Software manualOpen Dental manual: PPO write-offs report
Doing it by hand takes days
Owners and their accountants pull fee schedules, production and patient counts into spreadsheets, one plan at a time.
Trade pressAdams Brown, a CPA firm, on whether dentists should drop PPOs
How it works
Your numbers come in
Fee schedules, production, collections and write-offs by insurer, plus how many active patients each plan covers.
Each plan on one line
What you bill, what you collect, what you write off and your most common procedures, compared with your own fees.
Try the "what if"
Change how many patients you expect to keep and see the effect on revenue. Print a one-page summary for each plan to discuss with your accountant.
What you get
- A clear view of what each insurance plan is worth to your practice
- Your top procedures compared across plans, fee by fee
- A "what if we leave" estimate using your own assumptions
- A one-page summary per plan for you and your accountant
A good fit if
- You are considering leaving one or more PPO networks
- You belong to several plans and are not sure which pull their weight
- You want to redo the analysis each year when fees change
Probably not for you if
- You are fully out of network already
- Your fee schedules are not entered in your software and you do not have them on paper
Price
$2,900
One time, for the finished tool. About 40–75 hours of work at the same $50 an hour as the cost calculators on this site.
Talk about your practice- Your fee schedules and production data brought in and checked
- The plan-by-plan comparison and "what if" view
- A one-page summary for each plan
- A walkthrough of the results with you
Questions
Is going out of network with dental insurance right for my practice?
It depends on how much each plan pays you and how many of its patients would stay. That is why this tool uses your own numbers. It does not tell you what to do; it shows you what each choice is likely to cost or gain.
Can it predict how many patients will stay?
No one can predict that exactly. You set the assumption, and the tool shows what happens at different levels.
Does it replace my accountant?
No. It gives you and your accountant clear numbers to work from, faster.
Where do the numbers come from?
From your practice software: directly with Open Dental, and from report exports with Dentrix and Eaglesoft. Fee schedules can also come from the plans' own documents.
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