Wellfit Integrates with Epic’s Comprehensive Health Record System at Pacific Dental Services for a Simplified Patient Payment Solution

By AIT News Desk On Mar 30, 2022

Wellfit Processed More Than $300,000 in Dental Payments Through Epic’s Patient Portal in Rolling Four-Week Period Following Launch

Wellfit Technologies, Inc., (“Wellfit”) a healthcare technology platform that makes patient financing, dental plans, and payment processes simple, transparent, and cost-effective, successfully integrated with Wisdom, Epic’s dedicated dentistry module, at Pacific Dental Services(PDS), and processed more than $300,000 in a rolling four-week period through Epic MyChart. MyChart is Epic’s secure online portal where patients can view and manage their medical information and make bill payments. To date, Wellfit is among the few financial technology (fintech) partners in the dental space to process such a significant volume of payments through MyChart.

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“We’re helping them settle in real-time, perform more dentistry, which at the end of the day, improves profitability. Today, none of our competitors can say the same.”

PDS is a leading dental support organization with over 870 supported dental practices throughout the U.S. and an alpha client of Wellfit. It began implementing Epic Wisdom into its supported practices in April 2020, and was the first organization in the dental industry to implement both the enterprise-class Wisdom and Wellfit solutions.

The integration with Wisdom that was implemented by Wellfit at PDS allows the dental support organization to offer unified payments, financing, and dental plans. For clients with other dental practice management systems, Wellfit has also implemented seamless integrations.

“Since inception, Wellfit’s number one priority has been to save our customers time, money, and improve case acceptance. Wellfit saved over $3.6 m************** for our vanguard customer last year,” said Fulton Collins, Chief Executive Officer at Wellfit. “We’re helping them settle in real-time, perform more dentistry, which at the end of the day, improves profitability. Today, none of our competitors can say the same.”

“As the leader in interoperability, Epic enables PDS-supported practices to easily exchange data with other healthcare providers for improved continuity of care across the country,” said Stephen E. Thorne IV, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PDS. “The Wellfit integration with Epic automates business processes and streamlines workflow, which enables our supported clinicians and their teams to focus on what matters most—providing great patient care.”

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In its first year of operation as a startup, Wellfit developed, tested, and deployed its technology in over 870 dental practices, facilitated sales of over 556,000 dental plans, and processed more than $358M in patient payments in 2021.

Wellfit eliminates the payment complexities in dentistry by powering dental plans, delivering a patient-centric digital financing marketplace, and unifying payment processes. For patients, Wellfit provides them with a greater understanding of the cost of care, provides more payment options, and helps them build trust with their providers. For providers, Wellfit allows them to deliver care at the time of need and easily explain patient benefits and payment options.

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