Managed Payroll · Dental Practices & DSOs
Associate dentist production pay, multi-location DSO consolidation, hygienist overtime across offices, and front-desk incentive pay -- all handled correctly, every cycle. BEG manages it at $25-$45 per employee per month, all-inclusive. No migration required.
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TL;DR
Dental practice payroll gets complicated fast: associate production pay creates non-standard overtime math for non-exempt staff, DSOs need consolidated payroll across locations under different entities, and hygienist schedules vary week to week. BEG manages all of it at $25-$45 PEPM, all-inclusive, live in 3-5 business days with no migration required.
Why Dental Payroll Is Different
Production-based associate pay, multi-location DSO structures, and variable hygienist schedules create overtime and consolidation problems that generic payroll software is not built to catch.
Who We Manage Payroll For
Percentage-of-production and collections-based compensation, guaranteed base plus production draws, and true-up reconciliation handled with correct tax treatment each pay period.
Hourly and production-adjacent pay, overtime calculated correctly across multiple locations in the same workweek, and shift variability tracked accurately.
Base pay plus case-acceptance or collections incentive pay processed with correct regular-rate treatment for overtime purposes.
Consolidated payroll across every practice entity in your group, with location-level reporting for ownership and correct state registrations per site.
How It Works
We map your associate compensation structures, DSO entity structure, location footprint, and front-desk incentive plans. You get a fixed monthly cost before we start.
We configure production-based associate pay, regular-rate overtime calculations for non-exempt staff, multi-location entity setup, and state registrations. No migration required.
Every pay cycle, every state filing, every location-level report, and every year-end W-2, fully managed by BEG. Your office managers touch nothing.
What BEG Handles
Most associate dentists are properly classified exempt, but any non-exempt clinical staff member paid a production or collections bonus on top of hourly wages needs that bonus folded into their regular rate before overtime is calculated for the period, under the FLSA rules the Department of Labor administers. BEG configures the regular-rate calculation correctly for every production-adjacent pay structure in your practice so overtime is never underpaid.
Dental service organizations frequently run each location as its own legal entity for licensing and liability reasons while managing the group as one business operationally. BEG maintains entity-level separation, correct EINs, and state registrations per location while giving ownership one consolidated payroll view and one flat monthly rate across every site in the group.
When a hygienist or assistant works at more than one location within your group in the same workweek, all hours worked for the same employer count toward the 40-hour overtime threshold, not hours at each location separately. BEG tracks hours across every location under common ownership and calculates overtime on the combined total, so no location undercounts a shared employee's hours.
Case-acceptance bonuses and collections incentives for front-desk and treatment coordinator staff are non-discretionary bonuses under FLSA, not gratuities, and must be included in the regular rate for overtime purposes for any non-exempt employee receiving them. BEG configures this correctly rather than treating incentive pay as a flat add-on outside the overtime calculation.
What You Get
Common objection: "We just got our practice management and payroll set up the way we like it."
BEG does not require you to change platforms. We operate as your managed payroll team inside your current system. If you want to move to isolved for a more capable platform built for production-based pay and multi-location structures, we can manage that transition -- but it is never a requirement.
Common objection: "Our last payroll company charged extra for every location and every off-cycle run."
The $25-$45 PEPM rate covers everything: production-based pay processing, regular-rate overtime calculations, multi-location consolidation, state filings, year-end W-2s, and BEG support. One number, every location, everything included.
Common objection: "We call our payroll company and they have never heard of a production-based associate agreement."
Your BEG payroll specialist is your ongoing contact, not a call center that has to look up what a hygiene production bonus is. When your DSO adds a location, when an associate agreement changes, or when overtime looks wrong on a shared employee, one message to your BEG contact gets it explained and handled.
Getting Started
15 minutes. We map your associate compensation structures, DSO entity structure, and location footprint, and give you a fixed monthly price.
Agreement signed, system access granted, associate agreements and incentive plans reviewed for correct regular-rate treatment.
Production-based pay setup, regular-rate overtime calculations, and multi-location entity structure configured in your existing system.
Your first fully managed dental payroll run across every location. BEG executes, you approve, we handle everything else.
The Math on Waiting
A hygienist earning a $200 monthly production bonus who works overtime in that period is owed extra overtime pay based on a regular rate that includes the bonus, not just base hourly pay. Left uncorrected across a multi-location DSO with dozens of hygienists and assistants over multiple years, that gap becomes a real back-wage liability. Getting the regular-rate calculation right now costs far less than fixing it after a DOL complaint.
Your Next Transition Window
BEG transitions take 30-60 days. Practices and DSOs that consolidate payroll before adding a location avoid carrying the wrong entity setup or overtime configuration into the new site. Starting the scope review now means clean, compliant payroll before your next office opens.
15 minutes. We scope your associate compensation structures, location footprint, and incentive pay, and give you a fixed monthly cost.
FAQ
We process guaranteed base plus production or collections draws, reconcile true-ups on the schedule your associate agreement specifies, and apply correct tax treatment each pay period. If any non-exempt staff also receive production-adjacent bonuses, we fold those into the regular rate before calculating overtime, as required under FLSA.
Yes. We maintain entity-level separation for licensing and liability purposes at each location, including the correct EIN and state registrations, while giving ownership one consolidated payroll view and one flat monthly rate across the entire group.
Hours worked for the same employer at any location count toward the 40-hour weekly overtime threshold, not hours at each office separately. We track combined hours across every location under common ownership and calculate overtime on the total.
It can. Non-discretionary case-acceptance or collections bonuses paid to non-exempt front-desk staff must be included in the regular rate used to calculate overtime for that pay period. We configure this correctly rather than treating incentive pay as separate from the overtime calculation.
No. BEG operates as your managed payroll team inside your existing system. Migration to isolved is an option if you want a platform built for production-based pay, never a requirement to get started.
Everything: production-based pay processing, regular-rate overtime calculations, multi-location consolidation, state filings, year-end W-2s, and BEG support.
From signed agreement to live payroll: 3-5 business days. We configure associate production pay, regular-rate overtime, and multi-location entity structure in your existing system. If you are a DSO adding a new location, we also handle the new site's state registration during onboarding.
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