Dental Payments: Case Study

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Would you please review the Dental advance patients payments attachment and provide me some feedback on all these accounts. PMG need to know the status of these payments so they can post on the patient accounts if the procedure was complete.Also some of the accounts being responding by your deparment already but PMG FWD back another response would you please review them too. I will appreciate it if I can receive the response on the same spreadsheet I add one columm already for any response that we can provide to PMG. Please contact me or my supervisor Sierra if you have any question.

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