Financial readiness for dental practices
Know what’s not ready before tomorrow starts.
Talvro helps dental practices identify insurance, estimate, documentation, and prior-authorization issues before patients arrive.
One financial-readiness workflow for your dental team.
Currently onboarding a limited number of founding practices.
Tomorrow — Riverbend Family Dental
Thu, Sep 3Demo data12
Ready
8
Need attention
1
Blocked
- 8:00Patient A.D2740 · CrownPrior authorization not submittedBlocked
- 8:40Patient B.D1110 · ProphylaxisEstimate confirmed · $0 dueReady
- 9:20Patient C.D2950 · Core buildupAnnual maximum not reported by payerNeeds attention
- 10:00Patient D.D0274 · BitewingsEstimate confirmed · $18 dueReady
- 10:40Patient E.D4341 · SRP, URContracted fee missing for this planNeeds attention
Next action · Call Delta Dental for Patient C.’s annual maximum
Open worksheetThe problem
Stop discovering financial problems when the patient is already in the chair.
None of this is anyone’s fault. The information arrives from different places at different times, and there is no surface that holds it together for tomorrow’s schedule. So it gets found one patient at a time, usually too late to fix.
Eligibility was never resolved
The check timed out, the payer was unreachable, or the patient did not match — and nobody went back to it.
Benefit information is missing
The payer returned coverage but not the remaining annual maximum, and the estimate was built anyway.
Contracted fees are not on file
The plan is in-network but the negotiated fee for that code was never entered, so the estimate is a guess.
Patient responsibility is a surprise
The number quoted at the front desk and the number on the statement are not the same number.
A prior authorization was never completed
It was started, or assumed unnecessary, and the appointment arrives without it.
Required documentation is missing
Radiographs, a narrative, or a periodontal chart the payer requires is not attached.
Staff check every patient by hand
Someone works down tomorrow’s schedule one portal at a time, and finds the problems in the order the day happens to present them.
Managers cannot see tomorrow
There is no single place that answers whether the schedule is financially ready, so the answer arrives as it goes wrong.
The question
Is tomorrow’s schedule financially ready?
Everything Talvro does answers that one question. Not a dashboard of metrics — three answers a coordinator can act on before the first patient arrives.
Who
Who is not ready
The specific patients on tomorrow’s schedule with an unresolved financial issue — named, in appointment order.
Why
Why they are not ready
The actual reason: an eligibility response that never came, a missing contracted fee, an authorization that was never filed.
What
What needs to happen next
One concrete next action per patient, assigned and tracked, so the work is finished rather than rediscovered.
How it works
From chaos to clarity.
- 1
Talvro checks what information is available
Coverage, benefits, contracted fees, documentation and authorizations for every appointment on the next working day.
- 2
Talvro surfaces what needs attention
Each patient is Ready, Needs attention or Blocked — with the actual reason, not a score.
- 3
Staff resolve exceptions before the visit
One concrete next action per patient, owned by a named person, and readiness updates as information arrives.
Product
Everything your team needs for financial clarity
Financial readiness dashboard
Tomorrow’s schedule, sorted by what needs work.
The operating surface. Every appointment on the next working day with its readiness state and, where something is wrong, the reason and the next action.
- Ready, Needs attention and Blocked — the state plus the words, never colour alone
- One next action per patient, owned by a named person
- Filter by location, provider or appointment time
- Readiness is derived in one place, so two screens cannot disagree
Tomorrow — Riverbend Family Dental
Thu, Sep 3Demo data12
Ready
8
Need attention
1
Blocked
- 8:00Patient A.D2740 · CrownPrior authorization not submittedBlocked
- 8:40Patient B.D1110 · ProphylaxisEstimate confirmed · $0 dueReady
- 9:20Patient C.D2950 · Core buildupAnnual maximum not reported by payerNeeds attention
- 10:00Patient D.D0274 · BitewingsEstimate confirmed · $18 dueReady
- 10:40Patient E.D4341 · SRP, URContracted fee missing for this planNeeds attention
Next action · Call Delta Dental for Patient C.’s annual maximum
Open worksheetEligibility and benefits
What the payer actually said — including what it did not.
Talvro retrieves coverage and benefit information and records each fact with its source. Payers differ in what they return, and Talvro does not fill the difference in.
- Coverage status, deductibles, annual maximums, frequencies and waiting periods where the payer reports them
- Every fact traceable to the segment or field it came from, with the time it was retrieved
- A field the payer did not return is shown as unknown — not as zero, and not as “no coverage”
- A payer timeout, an unreachable payer and a patient mismatch are distinct outcomes, each with its own follow-up
Benefits — Patient C.
Retrieved 6:02 AMDemo data- Coverage statusActivePayer 271 · EB*1
- Individual deductible$50 of $50 metPayer 271 · EB*C
- Annual maximum$1,500Payer 271 · EB*F
- Annual maximum remainingUnknownNot reported by payer
- Crown frequency1 per 5 yearsPayer 271 · EB*F HS
- Waiting period, majorUnknownNot reported by payer
Two fields were not in the payer’s response. Talvro shows them as unknown rather than assuming a value.
Patient estimates
An estimate that tells you how much of itself is known.
Talvro combines your practice fees, the contracted fees on file, the benefit information the payer returned, deductibles, annual maximums and the planned treatment — and is explicit about which parts rest on something solid.
- Known — every input came from a confirmed source
- Defensible range — a bounded figure where one input is genuinely uncertain
- Assumption-based — clearly labelled, with the assumption named
- Unknown — Talvro says so instead of producing a confident number
Estimate — Patient C.
D2950 + D2740Demo data| Procedure | Fee | Plan | Patient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core buildupD2950 · Contracted fee | $285 | $171 | $114 |
| Crown, porcelainD2740 · Contracted fee | $1,240 | $620 | $620 |
Range, not a single figure
The remaining annual maximum was not reported, so this line is a defensible range of $734–$1,214. Talvro labels what is known, what is a range, what rests on an assumption, and what is still unknown — it does not present an assumption as a quote.
Prior authorization readiness
Know which authorizations are actually done.
Talvro assembles the case, works out what documentation the payer expects, and tracks each authorization through its states so nothing arrives at the chair unfinished.
- Needs info, Pending, Approved, Denied and Expiring, each with a next action
- A documentation checklist per case — radiographs, narrative, charting
- Talvro never reports a case as filed unless it was actually filed
- Where a requirement is inferred rather than confirmed, Talvro asks rather than asserts
Prior authorization
24 open casesDemo data- 4Needs infoMissing radiographs or narrative
- 6PendingSubmitted, awaiting payer decision
- 11ApprovedDocumented and on file
- 1DeniedAppeal window open
- 2ExpiringApproval lapses within 30 days
Talvro assembles the case and the documentation checklist, and tracks where each one stands. Submission is handled by your team through the payer’s own channel.
Team and manager control
Individual accounts, real roles, real locations.
Every person who touches insurance work has their own login and their own permissions, scoped to the locations they actually work at.
- Owner/Admin, Manager, Insurance coordinator, Front desk and Read only
- Location-level authorization, enforced on every screen and every query
- Audit history: who changed what, and when
- No shared office password — deactivating one person removes exactly one person’s access
Team and permissions
Riverbend Family DentalDemo data- Owner / AdminAll locations
Everything, including billing and team
- ManagerAssigned locations
Readiness, exceptions, team, reporting
- Insurance coordinatorAssigned locations
Verification, estimates, prior auth
- Front deskAssigned locations
Readiness and patient-facing estimates
- Read onlyAssigned locations
View, no changes
Every person has their own account. Nobody shares an office password, and every change is attributable.
Fits your practice
Works alongside the software you already use.
Talvro is not intended to replace your practice-management system. Your schedule, charting and ledger stay exactly where they are. Talvro adds the workflow that sits around them — insurance, estimates, prior authorization and the exceptions none of those systems were built to chase.
During the founding-practice pilot, patient and treatment information is brought in by structured import, and your team works in Talvro alongside the system you already have open. Direct connections to individual practice-management systems are in development and are not offered as production capabilities today.
What Talvro adds
Alongside your PMSDemo data- Stays putScheduling, clinical charting, ledger, claims
- TalvroEligibility and benefit facts with sources
- TalvroFee schedules and contracted-fee configuration
- TalvroPatient estimates with stated confidence
- TalvroPrior-authorization cases and documentation
- TalvroThe exception queue and daily readiness
Founding practice program
Built for practices ready to lead the future.
A limited number of practices join Talvro early, shape the product around their own operating problems, and get their whole team set up by the people building it. Places are limited so that each practice gets that attention properly.
Early access
You use Talvro while it is still being shaped around real operating problems, and what you tell us changes it.
Guided onboarding
We set the practice up with you: locations, providers, staff accounts and permissions.
Payer and fee configuration
Your payers, your fee schedules and the contracted fees you have on file, entered and checked together.
Workflow setup
The daily readiness loop configured around how your team already works, not a template.
Team training
Front desk, insurance coordinator and manager, each shown the part of it that is theirs.
Direct access to the Talvro team
You reach the people building it. No ticket queue between you and an answer.
Apply to join as a founding practice
Tell us about your practice and we will arrange a walkthrough. What it costs is part of that conversation, so it can fit the number of locations you have and the way your team actually works. There is no obligation to continue after a pilot.
Security
Security built into the workflow.
Talvro is designed and operated as healthcare software, with a security posture appropriate to protected health information. The controls below are implemented today.
We describe what we have built rather than claiming a certification. HIPAA does not certify software; a business associate agreement and a documented set of controls is the honest form of this commitment, and both are part of onboarding a practice.
Individual staff accounts
Every person signs in as themselves. There is no shared practice login, and removing someone removes exactly that person.
Role-based access
What a person can see and change is decided by their role, checked on the server for every action rather than hidden in the interface.
Location-level authorization
A coordinator at one location does not see another location’s patients. The restriction is enforced in the data layer, not by a filter on a page.
Encrypted production infrastructure
Production runs in a private network on AWS. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest with customer-managed keys, and the database is not reachable from the internet.
Audit history
Changes and access to patient information are recorded in an append-only log that the application itself cannot alter or delete.
Controlled Talvro Support access
Support access is deliberate and recorded rather than standing. We do not browse practice data to answer a question we were not asked.
Is tomorrow’s schedule financially ready?
See how Talvro can help your team find and resolve financial-readiness issues before patients arrive.