Bedside dental clearance for high-acuity patients

For a stable outpatient, a dental clearance visit is a minor errand. For a patient awaiting TAVR, on the cardiac step-down unit, mid-chemotherapy, or in the ICU, that same errand can be impossible. Moving the patient is a clinical event in itself, and the dental office was never built to receive them.

Bringing the evaluation to the bedside removes that barrier. A credentialed dentist performs the focused examination where the patient already is, coordinating with the care team around the patient's current status rather than working against it. The clinical standard for clearance is unchanged; only the location moves.

High-acuity care demands more than a general exam. A provider handling these cases needs comfort with anticoagulation and bleeding-risk considerations, neutropenic and immunocompromised precautions, and the realities of working alongside a full inpatient team. VitalPass prioritizes providers with exactly that experience for high-acuity dispatches.

The evaluation produces the same structured clearance the hospital would expect from any consult, documented and returned to the chart. What changes is that a fragile patient never had to be wheeled off the unit to get it, and the clearance no longer waits on a transport window that may never open.

For providers, these are among the most meaningful cases in the network — genuine hospital-based dentistry that keeps a transplant, cardiac, or oncology plan moving. And because compensation is transparent, with a 70% provider split on every completed case, the clinical work and the economics both hold up.