Why a dentist wants AI doing the insurance paperwork
Dr. Salem Sayegh sits down with Ang from Simular to talk about what insurance administration really costs a small practice, and why a general-purpose AI agent fits the problem better than another single-purpose tool.
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Insurance admin is a payroll line. The practice keeps two full-time employees on insurance administration every day. That is staff time spent on portals and data entry rather than on patients.
The squeeze is structural. Reimbursements have stayed flat while labor and overhead climb. Seeing more patients helps revenue, but each one adds more EOBs, more posting and more follow-up.
One agent instead of five tools. Most dental AI products solve one narrow job. An agent that uses a computer the way staff do can cover portal logins, EOB reading and ledger entry in the software the office already has.
Hours back, every day. The estimate from the conversation: automating this work could return at least three hours of productivity a day to a small family practice.
