CARAGON

CARAGON are the dental data experts. With our data extraction expertise, we can extract data from any system. This, combined with our data management platform (Automated Associate Pay), we are able to provide agile solutions for the dental sector.We are in the business of saving time, improving accuracy, and helping groups to scale.

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Automated Associate Pay

As the UK dental market consolidates, dental groups face the complexities of data centralisation and process standardisation.

As an alternative to costly and time-consuming manual processes, our Automated Associate Pay software offers an efficient solution for DSOs and dental groups to automate their associate pay – freeing up time, improving accuracy and enabling scalability.

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Benefits of Automated Associate Pay

  • Savings: Save up to 90% on employee time processing pay. This frees up valuable resource that you can deploy elsewhere.
  • Increased Accuracy: The introduction of automation and exception reporting means we reduce the margin for error and increase accuracy at all stages of the process.
  • Group-level Reporting: centralising all the data for associate pay allows your group to easily report on all elements of the process
  • Scalability – the solution is scalable as your business grows there is no need for additional resources to cope with more associates and or practices

Additional Services

  • Finance Automations

    We can automate much of the time your finance team spends manually inputting data, either on Excel or between systems.

  • Dental Dashboards

    Our custom dashboard solution gives you sight of every element of data from your dental group, the way you want to see it. The intelligence needed to scale!

What do our customers think?

How it works

  • Data Automation

    We automate the collation of data from multiple sources, all going directly into associate schedules: 

    • NHS – download of all contracts per performer.
    • Practice Management Systems – private income is pulled daily from SOE, R4, SFD, Orthotrac, Dentally. 
    • Insurance – all plans are catered for; Simply Health (Denplan), Practice Plan, DPAS, Patient Plan Direct, Highland Plan, Grampian Plan.
    • Invoicing Systems – process for lab invoices automated from P2D, Sage and more. 
    • HR Systems – we integrate with many HR software providers to pull rates into our pay solution (Cascade, Work Digital, People HR, Workday, iTeam). 

  • Our Platform

    Our software collates all our data sources, maps them to the relevant providers and using a rule engine we customise the output to each dental group. We can deal with any number of permeations! 

  • Automated Outputs

    Automated Associate Pay includes: 

    • Branded Remittances– auto generated and emailed directly to associates (a review link can also be sent in advance of pay). 
    • A Secure Online Portal – for associates to log in and view their schedules (current and historic). 
    • Reporting – pay review dashboard and report to streamline the process of reviewing and signing off pay. 
    • Journal Files – detailed line-item journals which can be uploaded to accounting systems (Xero, Sage, Quickbooks, AccountsIQ, Microsoft Business Central). 
    • Bank File Exports – payment file to the bank.

Who we work with…

Previous to implementing Automated Associate Pay, we had very manual processes and the associates really didn’t get the level of visibility they wanted from their pay statements. Since implementing Automated Associate Pay, we’ve got a very efficient process with little manual intervention and our associates now get a true breakdown of everything they’re being paid for.

Colin Stokes, CFO Together Dental

The benefits of using CARAGON’s Automated Associate Pay solution is that it’s able to help us scale our business much quicker. If we’re trying to grow the number of practices, we wouldn’t be able to pull all of the data and understand the trends across the whole business without this solution.

Darren Milne, CFO Portman Dental Care

We were using a Full Time Equivalent to manually enter data into spreadsheets to create pay statements for our associates, which opened us up for potential errors and was a drain on resources.

The functionality of the system saves a lot of processing time, and the team is always keen to work on new developments that our group needs to keep Dentist Pay evolving.

 

Mark Tyas, Head of Finance Colosseum Dental Group

Our commitment to you…

“We work with our customers on a partnership basis – we have long-term relationships with them and it’s about working together to find solutions.”

Trisha O’GradyChief Executive Officer, CARAGON

Meet your data experts

Our partnership approach enables us to find practical solutions for your data challenges, so that we can save you time, improve accuracy and help your business to scale.

  • Trisha O’Grady

    CEO, CARAGON

    Trisha O’Grady

    CEO, CARAGON

  • Garron Mosley

    CTO, CARAGON

    Garron Mosley

    CTO, CARAGON

  • Thomas Wasik

    Project Manager

    Thomas Wasik

    Project Manager

  • Stacey Ryle

    Implementation & Account Manager

    Stacey Ryle

    Implementation & Account Manager

  • Kirsty Wilkinson

    Data Technician

    Kirsty Wilkinson

    Data Technician

  • Vicky Browitt

    Customer Support Technician

    Vicky Browitt

    Customer Support Technician

  • Nikki Burger

    Customer Support Technician

    Nikki Burger

    Customer Support Technician

Interested in Automated Associate Pay for your independent practice?

If you’re an independent practice manager and interested in how our Automated Associate Pay solution can save you time when it comes to paying your associates, contact our expert team to learn more about our offering for solo practices.

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