CDBS Explained: How Automated Billing Recovers Thousands in Missed Revenue

The Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) provides up to A$1,026 in government-funded dental care for eligible children aged 2–17. Yet many Australian dental practices are leaving significant CDBS revenue on the table, not because they don't treat eligible children, but because the manual eligibility checking and claim process is error prone and time consuming.

Staff manually check each patient's eligibility, prepare claim forms, submit them, and reconcile payments against expected amounts. When the practice is busy, this process gets skipped or delayed, and claims go unlodged.

Automated CDBS workflows fix this. The system checks eligibility in real-time at the point of care, prepares claim documentation automatically, and reconciles payments, flagging any discrepancies. Practices using automated CDBS typically recover an additional A$2,000–4,000 per month in previously unclaimed government billing.