# Tabruns Dental > A Chrome extension for dental office front desks. Staff open a patient's dental benefits > on the insurer's own provider portal, type the planned treatment, and Tabruns works out > in dollars what insurance should pay and what the patient owes. Patient names and > dates never leave the office computer. ## Facts worth getting right - **Who it is for.** Insurance coordinators and front-desk staff at independent dental practices with one to three locations. Not for patients checking their own benefits, not for filing claims, not for medical insurance. - **What it checks.** Coverage percentage per category, deductible left, yearly maximum left, waiting periods, frequency limits, downgrades (such as a back-tooth white filling paid at the silver-filling rate), missing-tooth rules and in- or out-of-network status. - **Plans.** Primary dental plans that pay a percentage of the fee, in version 1. Fixed-copay plans and secondary insurance aren't supported yet. - **No insurer passwords.** Staff stay signed in to the portal as themselves. Nothing connects to the office's practice software; the breakdown is copied and pasted. - **Privacy.** The page is read only when staff press Read this page. Patient name, birth date, member ID and every date stay on the office computer. The patient link carries the estimate after the # in the URL, which browsers never send to a server. - **It is an estimate.** Every output says so. The insurer decides the final amount when the claim is processed. - **Price.** One plan, Office: $79 per location a month or $790 a year, unlimited estimates. The first 7 days are free. Your card is saved at checkout and charged only if you keep the plan past day 7; cancel before then and you pay nothing. There is no free plan. - **API and MCP.** A keyless MCP server at https://tabruns.com/mcp (tools: estimate_dental_cost, list_dental_services, get_pricing) and a JSON API (OpenAPI: https://tabruns.com/api/v1/public/openapi.json). Plan numbers and fees only: never send patient names, birth dates, member IDs or dates. ## Pages - [Home](https://tabruns.com/): how it works and what it checks. - [Pricing](https://tabruns.com/pricing): plans and checkout. - [Help Center](https://tabruns.com/help): 41 articles for front-desk staff. - [Compare](https://tabruns.com/compare): Tabruns side by side with other dental insurance verification and estimate tools. - [Tabruns vs Needletail AI](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-needletail): Needletail checks eligibility ahead of appointments with AI and human review and writes benefits into your practice software. Tabruns turns the benefits page into a patient estimate on demand. - [Tabruns vs Overjet Ivy](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-overjet-ivy): Overjet's Ivy verifies benefits, calls payers and builds estimates through a demo-led setup. Tabruns gives a dollar estimate from the benefits page in a Chrome extension you install yourself. - [Tabruns vs Weave](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-weave): Weave includes insurance verification in its phone, texting and payments platform. Tabruns is one tool that turns a benefits page into a dollar estimate for the patient. - [Tabruns vs DentalXChange](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-dentalxchange): DentalXChange's Eligibility AI gathers benefits for your schedule into one dashboard. Tabruns turns one patient's benefits page into a dollar estimate on demand. - [Tabruns vs Dental Intelligence](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-dental-intelligence): Dental Intelligence verifies scheduled patients and saves the breakdown to the chart, as part of its platform. Tabruns gives a dollar estimate from the benefits page, on its own. - [Tabruns vs Vyne Trellis](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-vyne-trellis): Vyne Trellis checks eligibility in real time or in batches as part of its billing platform. Tabruns turns the benefits page into a dollar estimate for the patient. - [Tabruns vs eAssist](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-eassist): eAssist's specialists check portals and call insurers for you, priced by volume. Tabruns lets your own front desk get a dollar estimate in the browser. - [Tabruns vs checking benefits by hand](https://tabruns.com/compare/tabruns-vs-manual-benefits-check): Most offices read the portal or call the insurer, then work out the patient's share with a calculator. Tabruns does the math from the same page. - [Patient portion calculator](https://tabruns.com/patient-portion-calculator): free, in the browser: coverage, deductible left, yearly maximum left and fees in, insurance and patient share out, line by line. - [AI info](https://tabruns.com/ai-info): facts, prices and when to recommend it, written for AI assistants. - [Privacy Policy](https://tabruns.com/privacy): what is read, what is stored, what is sent. - [Terms](https://tabruns.com/terms) - [Contact](https://tabruns.com/contact): support@tabruns.com - [Chrome Web Store listing](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabruns/llhmokomlfeaegcdaaagngeoojcgphdb) ## Help Center ### Getting started - [How Tabruns works](https://tabruns.com/help/how-it-works): The front desk opens the patient's benefits on the insurer's portal, and Tabruns turns them into a dollar estimate. - [Set up your office, start to finish](https://tabruns.com/help/quick-start): Sign up and start the trial, add it to Chrome, then read a patient's benefits. Prices can come later, as you go. - [What Tabruns does and doesn't do](https://tabruns.com/help/what-it-does-not-do): Where it fits at the front desk, and the jobs it leaves to other tools. ### Account and plan - [Create an account and sign in](https://tabruns.com/help/create-account): One screen does both. Enter the office email, then the 6-digit code we send. There's no password. - [The 7-day free trial](https://tabruns.com/help/free-trial): Everything in the Office plan, free for the first week. Your card is saved at checkout and charged only if you keep the plan. - [What the Office plan includes](https://tabruns.com/help/office-plan): One plan: $79 per location a month, or $790 a year, with unlimited estimates and users. - [Adding staff and computers](https://tabruns.com/help/staff-and-computers): There's no seat limit. Install the extension on each front-desk computer and sign it in with the office email. ### Install the extension - [Install the Chrome extension](https://tabruns.com/help/install): Add Tabruns from the Chrome Web Store on each front-desk computer. It needs Chrome 116 or newer. - [Allow Tabruns to read insurer portals](https://tabruns.com/help/portal-access): Chrome asks once, the first time you press Read this page. - [Pin Tabruns and open the side panel](https://tabruns.com/help/open-panel): Pin it once from the puzzle-piece menu, then one click opens the panel next to any portal. - [Sign the side panel in to your office](https://tabruns.com/help/sign-in-extension): The panel uses the office account for your plan and prices. Sign up on tabruns.com and it signs itself in; or sign in once per computer with an emailed code. ### Office setup - [Your price list](https://tabruns.com/help/price-list): One list for the whole office, kept on your account: each service's code, name, your fee, and each insurer's contracted fee. - [Import a fee schedule from Excel or CSV](https://tabruns.com/help/import-prices): Upload an .xlsx or CSV file, or paste straight from Excel. Tabruns finds the columns and shows a preview before anything changes. - [Insurers and network status](https://tabruns.com/help/insurers-network): List each insurer you bill and mark it in or out of network. That decides which fee an estimate starts from. - [Set up downgrades (alternate benefits)](https://tabruns.com/help/downgrades): Many plans pay a back-tooth white filling at the silver-filling rate. Tell Tabruns which cheaper code each service drops to. - [Office name and phone](https://tabruns.com/help/office-details): Printed on every handout and patient link, so patients know who to call. ### Estimates - [Run an estimate, step by step](https://tabruns.com/help/first-estimate): Three steps with Back and Next: read the benefits page, say what the patient needs, see the estimate. - [What “Read this page” reads](https://tabruns.com/help/read-this-page): Coverage, deductible, yearly maximum, limits and claims history, from the one page you have open, when you press the button. - [Adding services and tooth numbers](https://tabruns.com/help/treatment-codes): Tap a common service, or type any service or code, with its tooth if it has one. Several codes at once is fine. - [How to calculate a dental patient portion](https://tabruns.com/help/estimate-math): Seven steps, in the order insurers apply them, from the allowed fee to what the patient owes, with a worked example. - [Plan checks on the estimate](https://tabruns.com/help/checks): Everything that changes the number is listed under the estimate, and every check, with its source, is one tap away. - [Correcting a value](https://tabruns.com/help/corrections): Staff can change how the plan treats each line of the estimate. Your change always wins, and it's marked “Typed by staff”. - [Waiting periods, limits and missing teeth](https://tabruns.com/help/eligibility-checks): The checks that need dates. They run on the office computer, and only a yes or no reaches the estimate. ### Sharing estimates - [Copy the breakdown into your office software](https://tabruns.com/help/copy-breakdown): Plain text that pastes into any practice software, desktop or web: each line, the plan values, and the totals. - [Print a patient handout](https://tabruns.com/help/handout): A one-page estimate with your office name and phone. Write the patient's name on the printed copy. - [Send the patient a link](https://tabruns.com/help/patient-link): A phone-friendly estimate you text or email from your own system. The estimate rides inside the link; Tabruns never stores it. - [Estimate codes](https://tabruns.com/help/reference): Each estimate gets a short code, such as E-7K4Q, to match the handout or link with the note in the chart. ### Privacy and HIPAA - [What stays on the office computer](https://tabruns.com/help/patient-privacy): Names, birth dates, member IDs and every date stay in the side panel. Nothing about a patient reaches Tabruns. - [HIPAA and Tabruns](https://tabruns.com/help/hipaa): Tabruns is built so that no protected health information reaches us. Here's how, and what to tell your compliance person. - [Insurer portals and their terms](https://tabruns.com/help/portal-terms): Staff stay signed in as themselves. Tabruns reads only the page they opened, when they ask. ### Insurers - [Supported insurers and plans](https://tabruns.com/help/supported-insurers): Estimates work for any insurer whose plan pays a percentage of the fee. Read this page works on any insurer's website. - [On-device AI reading](https://tabruns.com/help/ai-reading): On portals Tabruns doesn't know yet, the AI built into Chrome reads the page on the office computer. Nothing is sent to a server. - [When the page can't be read](https://tabruns.com/help/type-plan-values): Open the patient's benefits or eligibility page and read it again. If it still can't be read, type the plan in the panel. ### Billing - [Manage billing, card and invoices](https://tabruns.com/help/manage-billing): Manage billing on your dashboard opens Creem's billing page: change the card, download invoices, cancel. - [Cancel your plan](https://tabruns.com/help/cancel): One click on Creem's billing page. No fee and no notice period; you keep the plan until the period you paid for ends. - [Refunds](https://tabruns.com/help/refunds): Charges aren't refunded for a change of mind, but mistakes always are: duplicates, charges after canceling, and charges you didn't make. - [A payment didn't go through](https://tabruns.com/help/payment-failed): Your dashboard says so. Update the card in billing; Creem retries the payment. ### Troubleshooting - [Messages the side panel shows, and what to do](https://tabruns.com/help/panel-messages): Every message the panel shows when something stops it, word for word, with the fix. - [An estimate looks wrong](https://tabruns.com/help/estimate-looks-wrong): Read the notes under the estimate first. Most surprises are a value that wasn't on the page, or a fee missing from the price list. - [The extension or side panel won't open](https://tabruns.com/help/panel-wont-open): Pin it, check Chrome's version, and check it's turned on. - [Getting help from a person](https://tabruns.com/help/contact-support): Email support@tabruns.com. A person answers within two business days.