Dental Practice Calculators for Front Office Costs
These dental practice calculators turn the work your front office does every week into hours and dollars. Enter your own numbers to see what insurance verification costs, how much production no shows put at risk, and how an in office hire compares with a dental virtual assistant at $10 an hour.
Insurance verification cost
The hours your front desk spends each week checking eligibility and benefits, and what they cost a year.
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No show cost
What missed appointments cost your practice in production each year, and what live confirmation calls can win back.
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Virtual assistant cost
A new in office hire next to a virtual assistant, with wages, payroll taxes, benefits and hiring.
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Each calculator starts from a published figure where one exists, such as BLS wage data for dental offices or the CAQH Index for verification time, and from a plain example where none does. The example values are placeholders. Swap in the numbers from your own practice management reports and the estimate becomes yours.
Run them in this order: verification first, because it is usually the largest block of front desk hours, then no shows, then the cost comparison with the hours you found.
- Pull a month of appointments from your schedule for the weekly counts
- Time five or ten real verifications to get your own minutes per check
- Use your broken appointment report for the no show rate
- Use your payroll records for wage and benefits
Questions about the calculators
Are these calculators free to use?
Yes. There is no sign up and nothing you enter leaves your browser. The copy button puts a plain text summary on your clipboard to share with your team.
Where do the default numbers come from?
Wages come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for offices of dentists, benefits from the BLS employer cost survey, and verification time from the CAQH Index. Values with no published source are marked as examples on each calculator.
Is the result a quote?
No. It is an estimate for planning. Our rate is $10 an hour with no long term contract and no setup fees; see pricing for the details.
Talk with us about your front desk and back office
A short discovery call to map the work your team wants off its plate, and how a dental virtual assistant would handle it.