Dental EOB extraction · Built for Open Dental
Dental EOB extraction
ends here.
Argus is dental EOB extraction and payment-posting software. It turns paper and PDF explanation-of-benefits documents into reviewed, balanced payment data—then posts to Open Dental only when a human says go.
PEAKSTONE DENTALExplanation of Benefits
PatientM. Thornton
Member ID•••• 5410
CodeBilledPaid
D2750$1,200$400
D0120$85$0
D0210$145$116
Check total$516.00
Audit passedBalanced to the penny
D2750 · Tooth 19Crown
- Billed
- $1,200.00
- Write-off
- $350.00
- Plan pays
- $400.00
- Patient
- $450.00
350 + 400 + 450 = 1,200
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01 / The overlooked gap
ERAs solved most of payment posting.
Most is not all.
Even efficient practices still receive a stubborn remainder of insurance payments as paper or PDF EOBs. Each one has to be read, interpreted, balanced, and keyed into the practice management system.
Estimates reflect the operating context Argus is being designed around; results vary by payer mix, enrollment, and workflow.
02 / One document, five stages
Eyes. Calculator.
Judgment. Keyboard.
Argus separates the work into deliberate stages. Extraction and auditing remain read-only. Posting is a distinct, human-triggered act.
Upload
Bring in a PDF, scan, image, pasted text, or structured 835.
Document enters ArgusExtract
AI reads unstructured documents; structured 835 files take a deterministic path.
Data is organizedAudit
Exact decimal math re-derives line totals and reconciles the check.
Every dollar accounted forReview
A person inspects the source beside the extracted fields and can correct anything.
Human judgment stays centralPost
Only an explicit click begins the Open Dental posting workflow.
Human-triggered write03 / The calculator
AI reads it.
Math proves it.
Extraction can be probabilistic. Financial reconciliation should not be. Argus uses exact decimal arithmetic to test the accounting identity for every service line and the payment as a whole.
04 / Designed for caution
Automation with
a hard stop.
The central design rule is simple: nothing is written to Open Dental until a human explicitly chooses to post.
Human-in-the-loop
Source document and extracted data stay together for fast, accountable review.
Duplicate defenses
Argus checks its event history and Open Dental payment records before posting.
Rollback-aware posting
A failed multi-step post can be safely restored—no partial writes left behind.
Tamper-evident history
Every transition lands in an append-only audit history that even the application itself cannot alter or delete.
05 / Security & HIPAA
HIPAA compliant.
By design, not disclaimer.
Argus was built by dental IT operators who implement HIPAA controls for a living. A Business Associate Agreement is provided for every founding practice and customer.
Covered end to end
Every service in the Argus data path—including the AI extraction service—operates under a signed Business Associate Agreement. Many AI tools can't say that about their AI layer.
Encrypted everywhere
PHI is encrypted in transit and at rest, and database traffic never traverses the public internet.
Seven-day PHI purge
Raw EOB content is automatically purged within seven days. The permanent audit record keeps only PHI-free facts—what happened, when, and the amounts.
Three layers of access control
Perimeter sign-in, per-user provisioning, and per-office authorization. A reviewer sees only the offices they're assigned—and each layer is independently revocable for instant offboarding.
Ready for the bad day
Documented incident-response and breach-assessment procedures, automated backups with point-in-time recovery, and monitored alerting.
PHI never leaks to logs
Errors and logs pass through an automatic sanitizer that redacts names, member IDs, dates of birth, and contact details before anything is stored.
06 / What exists today
Built and deployed.
Ready for founding practices.
Argus is running in a secure cloud environment, connected to an Open Dental development system, and backed by an extensive automated test suite. It has not yet processed real patient EOBs — founding practices will be the first, onboarded hands-on by the people who built it.
DocumentPDF · scan · 835
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ARGUSExtractAuditReview
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Humanexplicit approval
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Open Dentalreviewed payment
Purpose-built foundation
Cloud-hosted, access-controlled, and designed around the sensitivity of dental payment workflows.
Extensively tested
Backed by an extensive automated test suite covering extraction, auditing, and posting safety.
Founding practices
Production Open Dental credentials, real-world extraction accuracy, and a small first group with direct support and a say in what gets built.
07 / Founding program
A founding practice gets the builder.
No tiers, no seat math. A small first group of practices, onboarded hands-on, with founding terms agreed before anything goes live.
Hands-on setup
Onboarded personally by the person who built Argus—workflow mapped, offices provisioned, first EOBs run together.
A direct say
Founding practices set the priority list. What gets built next is what your billing team asks for.
Founding terms
Simple founding-practice pricing, agreed on the call and honored as the product grows.
08 / Questions
Argus, answered.
The questions dental teams ask most about trusting Argus with posting. For the category basics—what EOB extraction is, which formats and fields—see the EOB extraction page.
Does Argus work with Open Dental?
Yes. Argus is built specifically for Open Dental. After extraction and auditing, a person reviews the results and posts reviewed, balanced payments into Open Dental. Nothing is written to Open Dental until a human explicitly approves it.
How does Argus handle denied claims and denial codes?
Argus captures adjustment and denial reason codes during extraction, so denied lines are visible during review alongside the billed, allowed, write-off, plan-paid, and patient-responsibility amounts for each service line.
How accurate is the EOB extraction?
Extraction is probabilistic, so Argus does not trust it blindly. Every extracted line is checked with exact-decimal arithmetic that re-derives line totals and reconciles the check, and a person reviews the source document beside the extracted fields before posting. AI extraction, deterministic math, and human review together are how Argus keeps posting accurate.
Is Argus HIPAA compliant?
Yes. Argus runs on enterprise cloud infrastructure under a signed Business Associate Agreement that covers every service in the data path—including the AI extraction service. PHI is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is authenticated and scoped per office, raw EOB content is automatically purged within seven days, and a BAA is provided to every practice.
For dental operators who still touch paper EOBs
Become a
founding practice.
A small number of practices and dental groups, onboarded first and onboarded personally.
Book a founding call Limited onboarding capacity · Argus has not yet processed live patient EOBs · BAA providedPrefer email? support@pegasusdentalit.com