What Lemma does
Lemma builds a dental-focused banking platform for DSO-PC groups. It gives operators one interface across their professional entities and DSO while accounting for the compliance requirements of a multi-entity structure.
The problems it addresses are the ones documented throughout this site’s banking section: fragmented logins, limited cross-entity visibility, repeated KYB onboarding, manual intercompany transfers, entity-specific refund and check workflows, and bank systems that do not model state- and fact-specific authority, payer and merchant receipt-routing terms, separate entity ledgers, or role-based transaction rights.
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Why we built this wiki
We built the wiki for three reasons.
First, the reference did not exist. The DSO-PC structure sits across state dental law, corporate formation, payer operations, and multi-entity finance. Founders assembled it from law firm alerts, forum posts, and expensive first conversations with counsel.
Second, Lemma’s customers ask these questions regularly. They want to know what their state allows a non-dentist owner to do, how a management services agreement (MSA) should be priced, and what a payer does with a change of ownership. Writing the answers down means we can send a customer the page instead of answering the same question in an email, and the page carries citations an email would not.
Third, the wiki serves Lemma commercially. A reference people trust earns links, citations, and a reputation for knowing this structure well.
Those reasons align only if the wiki remains useful to people who will never be Lemma customers.
The sibling wiki
Lemma also maintains the MSO-PC Wiki, which covers management-company structures in medicine, behavioral health, med spas, veterinary care, and other licensed professions. This site links there when a non-dental comparison is useful and otherwise stays focused on dentistry.
This is not product documentation
Lemma’s product documentation lives at getlemma.com/docs. This site is an industry reference about DSO-PC structures and operations. It is intended to be useful regardless of where a reader banks.
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