Honest comparison
Revamend vs full-service dental billing companies
Companies like eAssist, Dental Claim Support, and Wisdom run your entire revenue cycle, typically for about 2.5% to 3.5% of all collections or monthly plans starting around $1,400, and they are good at it. Revamend does exactly one thing: recovering denied claims, for 20% of what is actually recovered. These are different tools for different problems, and this page is about which problem you have.
Side by side
Published pricing varies by company, practice size, and plan, so confirm current figures with any vendor you evaluate. The ranges below reflect typical publicly discussed pricing for full-service dental billing.
| Criterion | Full-service billing company | Revamend |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | The whole revenue cycle: insurance verification, claim submission, payment posting, denial follow-up, patient billing, and accounts receivable management. They become your billing department. | One thing only: recovering denied claims. Triage by reason code, appeals drafted and specialist-reviewed, payer follow-up, and recovered dollars tracked in a portal. Your team keeps everything else. |
| Pricing model | Typically a percentage of total collections, around 2.5% to 3.5%, or flat monthly plans that often start near $1,400 a month. You pay on every dollar collected, including the clean claims that would have paid anyway. | 20% of recovered denial dollars, and nothing else. Our first 5 founding practices pay 10%. No minimums, no setup fees, no percentage of your normal collections. |
| Cost for an $80k/month practice | Roughly $2,400 to $2,800 a month at typical percentage rates, paid every month. For that you get an entire billing function, so the cost can be well worth it. | $0 in any month we recover nothing. If we recover $5,000 of denials in a month, the fee is $1,000 at the standard rate. The fee exists only where the recovery does. |
| Onboarding | Discovery calls, a proposal, a contract, and usually remote access to your practice management system. Expect days to weeks before work begins. | Self-serve and online in about 10 minutes: tell us about the practice, upload a remittance export, e-sign the BAA and authorization. No sales call, and no remote access to your PMS. |
| Who it is for | Practices that want to hand off billing entirely: no in-house biller, a departing biller, rapid growth, or an owner who wants the whole function managed by one accountable vendor. | Practices whose billing basically works, except that denials pile up unworked. You keep your team and your process; we take the one queue nobody has time for. |
One thing we want to be clear about: full-service billing companies are not overpriced denial services. They deliver an entire billing department. Comparing their price to ours only makes sense if denials are the only problem you are trying to solve.
Choose a full-service biller if
- You need the whole cycle handled: eligibility verification, claim submission, payment posting, patient statements, and AR follow-up, not just denials. A denial-only service cannot replace any of that.
- You are losing or lack a biller. A full-service company can step in as your billing department within weeks, which is exactly what it is built for.
- You want one vendor accountable for overall collections performance, measured against your total production, with a team that spans every payer task.
- You value an established track record. eAssist, Dental Claim Support, and Wisdom are established companies with years of operating history and large client bases. Revamend is new. We offset that with published contracts, a founding-practice rate, and a fee that only exists when we recover money, but we will not pretend to have a history we do not have.
Choose Revamend if
- Your billing works except for denials. Claims go out, payments post, patients get statements, but the denial queue never gets touched. Paying 3% of all collections to fix one queue is the wrong tool.
- You want to try recovery risk-free. There is no retainer and no minimum, so the worst case is that we recover nothing and you pay nothing.
- You want zero calls and zero disruption. Onboarding is fully self-serve, we work from exported remittance files, and we never log into your PMS. Your current workflow does not change.
- You already use a full-service biller you like for everything else. Denial-only recovery can sit alongside an in-house team; if you are happy with a full-service vendor, ask them to work your denial backlog first, since it may already be included in what you pay.
If you are torn, the deciding question is simple: is anything besides denials broken? If yes, talk to a full-service company. If no, a contingency denial service costs nothing to test.
See the denial number before you pick either.
The free audit reads a remittance export in your browser, with nothing uploaded, and estimates what your denied claims are worth. Take that number into any vendor conversation, including one with us. If you want us on it, onboarding is online and takes about ten minutes.