MacPractice DDS Review - why 4.3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 12, 2022

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What is MacPractice DDS?

MacPractice DDS is a dental software designed for Mac OS X, handling billing, reports, claims, appointment reminders, perio charting, etc. The software comes with features such as:

• Electronic Dental Records: This feature enables the ability to create and manage electronic dental records, such as patient intake forms, continuity of care documents, and general clinical history forms.
• ePrescribe: MacPractices provides dental professionals with electronic prescribing and controlled substance prescribing with NewCrop. Dental professionals can seamlessly prescribe all substances safely and securely.
• Restorative Charting: This feature includes impressive enhancements to dental charting and imaging. It also provides more power, simplicity, and aesthetic updates, including enhanced tooth graphics for more streamlined charting.
• Attachments: With this feature, clients can save time and paper by scanning insurance cards, drivers licenses, EOBs, registration forms, and other documents directly into patient records.
• Mobile EHR: MacPractice offers an iEHR app for iPad, a mobile electronic health records solution that allows dental professionals to chart and organize patient data in the palm of their hand.

MacPractice DDS is a dental software that started in 2004. The company is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The company has a workforce of up to 200 employees.

Who is it best for?

Customers of the software include small individual clinics as well as large hospitals. It can be used in such medical industry domains as chiropractic, general surgery, internal medicine, optometry, podiatry, and others. Some notable clients of the software include LifeTouch Physical Therapy Center, Wave Dental Spa, and others.

Main features and functionalities

The software offers comprehensive scheduling capabilities with a customizable appointment display where schedules can be viewed by any date range. It facilitates creation of paperless patient workflow in addition to reliable organization of patient photos, scanned insurance cards, and image records. The software also offers employee time tracking including employee checking in and checking out in addition to direct time logging.

MacPractice DC facilitates creation of patient payment plans and automatic conversion of those plans into patient ledger at the set frequency. Other important capabilities include electronic prescription, inventory management, billing and invoicing, patient portal, lab integration, insurance verification, and others.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $100 per host/hour. ITQlick pricing score is 2.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for MacPractice DDS.

Pros

• Users find MacPractice relatively cheap
• MacPractice offers the ability to control a medical practice from one place
• The software provides online videos for every part of the system

Cons

• Users complain of difficulty in navigating through the system

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of MacPractice DDS vs alternative software solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is MacPractice DDS right for you or your business?

Dental professionals seeking a client-centric company with a philosophy of supplying clients with complete and extensive training and support from a dedicated and knowledgeable team and allowing them to focus on patients will fit well with MacPractice. Examples of dental professionals using MacPractice are found in organizations like Peter Wohrle DMD, Roger Klassen OD, Mark J. Friedman DDS, etc.