10%
Claims Denied on First Submit
One in ten dental claims gets rejected outright. Each denial costs $25–$50 in staff time to rework — if it gets reworked at all.
Up to $50K/year lost for a typical practice
Contingency-Based Insurance Recovery
$2.5M+
recovered for dental practices like yours
Denied. Underpaid. Sitting past 180 days. Hand us the insurance AR your team has already worked without success — we go after the carrier directly until it is resolved.
We don’t just prepare appeal letters. We get on the phone with the carrier, challenge the payment decision, demand reconsideration and reprocessing, and follow through until the claim is resolved.
Keep your existing team or billing company — we’ll take only what is stuck. Or hand us the day-to-day as well: claims submission, payment posting and ongoing AR follow-up.
No recovery, no fee — we are paid a percentage of money we actually get back
Trusted by dental practices nationwide
$2.5M+
Revenue Recovered
500+
Stuck Claims Resolved
94%
Denial Overturn Rate
$0
Owed If We Recover Nothing
Most practices lose thousands every month to claims that were denied, underpaid, or simply aged out — usually after somebody already tried once to collect them.
10%
One in ten dental claims gets rejected outright. Each denial costs $25–$50 in staff time to rework — if it gets reworked at all.
Up to $50K/year lost for a typical practice
30%
Insurance companies routinely pay below contracted rates using outdated fee schedules. Most practices accept it without question.
$15K–$30K left on the table annually
<20%
Claims older than 90 days rarely get collected. That aging AR on your books? It’s revenue that’s already gone.
Every month you wait shrinks recovery odds
20+ hrs
Your front desk spends half the week chasing insurers instead of caring for patients. That’s burnout waiting to happen.
Over $26K/year in admin costs alone
None of this has to be written off. A claim that was worked once and abandoned is still collectable — it needs somebody willing to keep pushing the carrier until it pays.
Get Your Free Recovery AuditWhat we do
Most practices start with the claims nobody could collect. Plenty hand us the day-to-day as well: submitting the claims, posting the payments, and working the AR before it ever ages into a problem. Take one, take both.
Contingency — 20–40% of what we recover, nothing if we recover nothing
We pull the EOB and the chart, find the real reason the claim was denied, and take it to the carrier by phone — escalating past the first-line rep when that is what it takes.
Paid, but paid short. We check each EOB against your contracted rate and pursue the shortfall. Our fee applies only to the additional dollars we get released — never to what the carrier already paid you.
The 90, 180, and 365-day buckets your team stopped opening. We work them claim by claim rather than writing them off, and we tell you honestly which ones are past saving.
When the payment decision is simply wrong, we request reconsideration and push the claim back through for reprocessing — then keep following up until it actually moves.
Claims running up against a filing or appeal deadline get triaged first. These are the hardest to win and the most expensive to lose, so they go to the front of the queue.
When a carrier is paying an outdated schedule, the shortfall repeats on every claim. We prove the discrepancy against your contract and pursue the back balance, not just the next one.
Every recovery ends with a plain answer to why the claim failed — coding, documentation, or payer policy — so your team stops re-creating the same denial next month.
Sleep apnea, TMJ, oral surgery and trauma denied by dental are frequently payable by medical. We re-route those claims to the correct payer and appeal them there.
Flat monthly or per-item — never charged at recovery rates
The day-to-day work that keeps claims from becoming recovery cases in the first place. Take the whole thing, or just the pieces your team is drowning in.
Claims go out clean the first time — correct CDT codes, the attachments that payer actually wants, and the narrative that stops the denial before it happens.
Every insurance and patient payment posted and reconciled against the EOB. Shortfalls get flagged as underpayments the day they land, not eighteen months later during an audit.
Your AR worked on a schedule instead of whenever the front desk finds an hour. Claims get chased at 30 days, not written off at 180 — which is the whole point.
Eligibility, benefits and coverage limits confirmed before the patient sits down, so treatment is planned against what the plan will actually pay.
Enrollment and re-credentialing paperwork, submitted and followed up. A lapsed credential turns a month of perfectly good claims into denials.
A plain-English monthly picture: claims submitted, what got paid, AR by aging bucket, and where the denials are clustering.
Not sure what is recoverable, or which of the day-to-day work you want off your desk? Send us the AR report and we’ll tell you — free.
Get Your Free Recovery AuditNo disruption to your practice, no upfront cost, and nothing owed unless money actually comes back. Three steps, and the rate is agreed in writing before we touch a claim.
Your aging AR report and the denials your team has already worked. We tell you what is realistically recoverable, what is not, and the exact rate for the claims we take — at no cost.
Takes just 5 minutes
Calls, escalations, reconsideration and reprocessing requests, formal appeals — then follow-up until the claim is resolved. Not a letter mailed into a void.
Zero effort from your team
The carrier pays your practice directly. Afterwards we invoice the agreed percentage of what actually landed. Recover nothing, owe nothing.
Results in 30 days or less
No contracts. No upfront fees. Nothing owed unless we recover.
Every figure below came out of claims a practice had already worked and stopped chasing. No fluff — just money that was not going to arrive on its own.
$48K
Avg. Recovery per Practice
94%
Denial Overturn Rate
21 Days
Avg. Time to Resolution
$23,400
Denied Crown & Bridge Claims
Solo practice in Phoenix, AZ. 34 denied claims overturned via targeted appeal documentation in 6 weeks.
$41,200
Aging AR Over 90 Days
2-dentist group in Nashville, TN. Recovered from 147 aging claims across Delta Dental and MetLife in 8 weeks.
$18,750
Systematic Underpayments
Pediatric dental office in Orlando, FL. A contracted-rate audit uncovered 18 months of underpaid D2740 and D2750 claims. The $18,750 is additional money released on top of what the carrier had already paid — and the only amount our fee applied to.
Individual recovery amounts vary. Results shown are representative of actual client engagements.
+180%
Current AR (0–30 days)
25% → 70%
−87%
Overdue AR (90+ days)
30% → 4%
−78%
Aging AR (61+ days)
55% → 12%
Average AR aging distribution across practices before and after partnering with Apex Dental Recovery.
Ready to see what we can recover for your practice?
Get Your Free Recovery AuditPricing
Two models, kept strictly apart. Claims that already failed to pay are worked on contingency — a percentage of what we get released, and nothing if we get nothing. Day-to-day submissions, posting and AR follow-up are billed flat or per item.
Paid only out of what we recover
Contingency recovery fee
20–40%
of amounts recovered, based on claim age, complexity and volume. The rate for your claims is agreed in writing before we start work — and it never changes mid-engagement.
Older, harder, and already-refused claims cost more to recover, so they carry a higher percentage.
Recent claims, 30–90 days
Straightforward denials and payer errors that simply need to be worked properly.
20–25%
90–180 days, or denied once already
Requires direct carrier intervention — calls, escalation, reconsideration, reprocessing.
30%
180+ days, repeat denials, underpayments
Claims your team has appealed unsuccessfully, or balances already treated as written off.
35–40%
Against a timely-filing or appeal deadline
Exceptionally difficult recoveries where the window is closing. Priced per claim so nobody is guessing.
Case by case
Sending a larger batch of AR at once lowers the rate. We will tell you where your claims land before you commit to anything.
Recovered means the incremental dollars we cause to be paid. It is never your total collections, and never money the carrier had already released before we touched the claim.
Worked example
A $1,000 claim was paid $600 and closed. We challenge the underpayment and the carrier releases another $300. Our fee applies to that $300 only — not to the $600 you already had, and not to the $900 total.
Say you hand us $40,000 of denied and underpaid claims your team has already worked without success, at a 35% rate.
$20,000
recovered from the carriers
$13,000
kept by your practice
$7,000
our fee, invoiced after you are paid
If we recover $0, you owe $0. That is the entire downside.
Ongoing AR & billing
Claims submission, payment posting and ongoing AR follow-up are billed flat or per item — contingency rates never apply to them. Pick the level that matches what you actually want off your desk.
Best for: one job off your desk
$2.75–$12.50
per eligibility check
Best for: submissions, posting & AR handled
$500 /mo + 3%
of insurance collections
Best for: no in-house biller at all
5–6%
of insurance collections
Where the two models meet: if we are already running your submissions and posting, the claims we collect through the normal cycle are covered by the fee above — no contingency on top. Contingency applies only to claims that had already failed to pay, and only to the incremental dollars we get released.
We carry the entire risk of working your worst claims. If nothing comes back, that cost is ours.
Want to know where your claims land? Send us the AR report and we’ll quote the rate before you commit.
Dental-specific expertise, HIPAA-compliant processes, and a performance-based model that puts your revenue first.
Your Dental Recovery Specialist
10+
Years Experience
94%
Overturn Rate
150+
Practices Served
With over a decade of hands-on experience in dental insurance recovery, Desiree has helped solo practitioners and small group practices reclaim millions in denied claims, underpayments, and aging accounts receivable. Her clients consistently see 94%+ denial overturn rates and significant reductions in aging AR within the first 90 days.
What she does that most billing services will not: get on the phone with the carrier and argue the claim. Challenging a payment decision, demanding reconsideration and reprocessing, escalating past the first-line rep, and staying on it until there is a resolution — that is the work, and it is the work Apex is built around.
HIPAA Compliant
All patient and insurance data is handled in full compliance with HIPAA privacy and security standards.
Your patient and insurance data is encrypted, access-controlled, and handled under strict HIPAA protocols.
CDT coding specialist with deep knowledge of dental payer contracts, EOB analysis, and cross-coding (CPT/ICD-10).
Weekly recovery reports with full visibility into claim status, amounts recovered, and AR aging progress.
Month-to-month flexibility with no long-term commitments. Cancel anytime — we earn your business every month.
BAA-Ready
Signed before any PHI access
Encrypted Comms
All PHI over secure channels
E&O Insured
Professional liability coverage
Verified Client Outcomes
Real outcomes from active client engagements. Practice details kept confidential — results are documented and on file.
$67,000
Recovered in 90 Days
“We had over $80K in denied claims we’d basically written off. Apex recovered $67,000 of it in under three months. Their team knew exactly which appeals to file and how to document everything. It’s money we never thought we’d see again.”
Solo GP Practice
Southwest US • General Dentistry
45% ↓
Aging AR Reduced
“Our aging AR over 90 days was out of control. Apex cleaned up six months of backlog and cut our aging AR by 45%. My front desk staff can finally focus on patients instead of chasing insurance companies all day.”
3-Provider Group Practice
Mountain West • General & Specialty Mix
$32K/yr
Additional Annual Revenue
“I didn’t realize how much we were being underpaid until Apex audited our fee schedules. They found systematic underpayments across three insurers and recovered the difference. Now we’re collecting $32K more annually — on claims we were already filing.”
2-Location Group Practice
Southeast US • General Dentistry
How contingency recovery works, what it costs, and where we fit alongside your existing team.
Still have questions? We’re happy to talk through your specific AR before you send us anything.
Get Your Free Recovery AuditTell us roughly what is sitting in denied and underpaid insurance AR. We’ll tell you what is recoverable and quote the rate — free, and with no obligation to use us.
Tell us what your team has already tried to collect and given up on. We’ll tell you what can still be recovered — and what it would cost.