Procedure history
Date, provider, location, code, tooth/surface where relevant, submitted/allowed/adjusted/collected amount, and payer class.
Acquisition playbook
A buyer may face patient expectations, open treatment, credits, remakes, and retreatment exposure created before closing. Which legal and financial obligations transfer depends on the transaction documents and applicable law; patient continuity still needs an explicit plan. Screening metrics locate the review; they do not prove overtreatment.
Minimum dataset
This is a restricted professional data schema, not an upload template for DenQAI. Real coded patient rows can remain identifiable, especially with exact treatment and visit dates. Keep them in an authorized review environment; use only reviewed aggregate findings in public calculators.
Date, provider, location, code, tooth/surface where relevant, submitted/allowed/adjusted/collected amount, and payer class.
Coded patient ID in an authorized review environment, new/established status, first-visit date, age band, payer, and active/recall definition.
Plan and diagnosing provider, planned, accepted, declined/deferred, completed, and elapsed time.
Exam, images, periodontal records, diagnosis/prognosis, alternatives, consent, communications, and follow-up availability.
Remake, refund, credit, write-off, retreatment, complaint, payer/board inquiry, lab remake, warranty adjustment, and emergency return.
Recommendations and completions, services retained, doctor/hygiene days, booked hours, cancellations, new-patient exams, and provider departures.
Workback days, covenant, presale-work responsibility, indemnity, reserve, chart review, open cases, and patient communication.
The example is entirely fictional. Its Unverified status means no clinical finding has been established. Replacing a name with a code does not make real records safe for public tools or general AI prompts.
Screening metrics
Independent chart review
Predefine a sample that includes random active and inactive patients, every material provider, ordinary and high-production months, high-value cases, new patients, remakes/refunds/complaints, periodontal care, proposed-but-uncompleted cases, emergency returns, and enough presale treatment to estimate post-close exposure.
The reviewer should be independent, appropriately licensed or otherwise acting within lawful scope, and blinded to the desired price where practical. Counsel and the privacy lead should document the permitted disclosure path, recipient role, minimum necessary records, access controls, and any required agreement before review. A proposed sale does not authorize unrestricted chart access. The review asks whether the record supports assessment, diagnosis, findings, alternatives, the consent discussion, performed treatment, communications, and follow-up. A signed consent form alone does not establish an informed process.
Three economic cases
The buyer can clinically and operationally reproduce the seller’s supported mix.
The buyer counts only work they would independently diagnose and are trained, willing, and staffed to deliver.
Unsupported, uncertain, nontransferable, or high-retreatment-risk production is excluded or discounted.
Use a recurring adjustment for future production lost and a separately supported one-time reserve for inherited obligations.
Young-practice / rapid-exit audit
DenQAI’s reviewed sources do not establish a general “overtreat for four years, then sell” trend. Test the actual practice instead: ask whether its operating history, cohort maturity, evidence quality, and transferable production justify the goodwill.
Reconstruct formation, DBA, NPI, license, radiation, permit, occupancy, lease, UCC, first claim/deposit/patient/payroll, team, marketing, listing, and broker-engagement dates. Each mismatch creates a question, not a misconduct finding.
Convert the finding into structure
Carry the independent-review case into the buyer-repeatable cash bridge and counteroffer. State the evidence, the amount, the duration, the non-double-count rule, and the transition protection requested.