For Open Dental practices

The back office of a group, for every independent practice.

Praktend gives your practice seven departments, reached through one AI chief of staff, and a person approves anything that spends money. Insurance Verification, which checks each patient's dental insurance with the payer straight from Open Dental, is live today, so you can start with one real task.

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Sample data: the Decisions page filtered to Communications, listing two items waiting for approval, each with a risk marker and a Review button.

Sample data: the AI chief of staff, replying to the question what needs my attention today, with overdue tasks listed by department.

Sample data: the insurer's answer for one patient, with coverage dates, annual maximum left, deductible and coverage percentages by type of care.

Sample data Decisions waiting on you, each marked with its risk. A person approves anything that spends money, and your practice sets the rules for anything said in its name.

A person approves anything that spends money
Built for Open Dental practices
Insurance Verification from $199 a month, 300 verified appointments included

Check the whole day's insurance before opening.

Your admin starts a check of the day's schedule. Praktend finds each payer from the plan in Open Dental, so nobody looks up payer IDs. Open any patient for the deductible and maximum left, coverage percentages and limits for the services booked. Appointments, insurance plans and the ledger in Open Dental are unchanged.

A plain verdict for each appointment
“Not sent” wherever the payer sent no value, never a guess
Conflicts listed as items to confirm by phone

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Sample data: a day's schedule after an insurance check, with each plan's status, maximum left and deductible. — Sample data A day's schedule after a check: plan status, maximum left and deductible for each appointment.

Seven departments, one AI chief of staff

The AI chief of staff hands each request to the right department. How the team works. Start with Insurance Verification.

Built into every plan: shared inbox, IT & security, practice knowledge.

Three steps to your first check

Connect Open Dental. Praktend connects to Open Dental through its API. Security and privacy details are on the trust page.
Start a check. One patient, or your admin checks the whole day's schedule. Nobody looks up payer IDs.
Read the summary. Deductible, annual maximum and coverage come back in a summary you can download as a PDF or Word file.

A person approves anything that spends money

A person approves anything that spends money, and your practice sets the rules for anything that goes to a patient, a payer, your books or the public. Starting an insurance check is your team's go-ahead for that question to go to the payer. You can let chosen routine items go out with a notice to your office instead. Approval actions are recorded in an audit log.

Sample data: the approvals queue, four requests waiting on a person, each with a Review button. — Sample data The approvals queue: requests wait here for a person to review.

Security and privacy details

One live product, one clear price

$199 a monthInsurance Verification, for Open Dental practices
300 includedverified appointments every month
14-day free trialwhen it is the first thing your practice buys, and no setup fee

Published pricing. See pricing and the cost calculator

Chris Shannon founded Praktend and writes its software. Support comes from the people who build Praktend, as part of the subscription.

Chris Shannon, Founder

See a check run on a sample schedule.

Fifteen minutes, on sample data, with time for your questions. Read the questions practices ask first.

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