What Lemma does
Lemma builds dental-first banking for DSO-PC groups, one interface across every professional entity and the DSO, designed around the compliance patterns this structure requires rather than adapted to them after the fact. 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. getlemma.comWhy we built this wiki
Two honest reasons. DSO operators work across state dental law, corporate formation, payer operations, and multi-entity finance. Information about each area exists, but it is rarely organized around the operator’s full workflow. This wiki brings those sources together and gives readers enough context to ask narrower questions of counsel and other advisers. We want to be the people who know this well. A genuinely useful reference earns trust, links, and citations. That is a commercial motive, and we’d rather state it than pretend otherwise. The bet is that those two align: the wiki is only worth building if it is good enough to be useful to people who will never be 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.The mention policy
Lemma is named on eleven pages, each disclosing the mention at the point it appears:
The four account opening pages name Lemma because the requirements and the timeline genuinely differ by route. Each states what a brick-and-mortar bank asks for in full alongside it.
Everywhere else, the wiki is vendor-neutral, including about Lemma’s own category.
That means:
- Account structures, Structure accounts across your entities, and Reconcile payments daily are written to work at any institution
- The all-in-one platforms evaluation rubric applies to Lemma as much as to anyone
- We describe the category, “dental-focused banking platforms”, rather than naming ourselves, wherever naming ourselves wouldn’t add information
How we handle vendor coverage
Vendor pages cover PMS platforms, clearinghouses, attachment services, membership-plan software, and related products. We focus on verifiable details such as API design, published payer connections, pricing, ownership, and incident history. Readers should confirm current capabilities against their own payer mix and requirements before signing a contract. See The clearinghouses, compared for an example of how the wiki approaches vendor comparison.This is not product documentation
Lemma’s product documentation lives at docs.getlemma.com. This site is a different thing: an industry reference for the DSO structure generally, written to be useful whether or not you ever use Lemma.Editorial standards
Documented in full at How we keep this current. In summary:- Primary sources first; secondary commentary identified as such
- Every legal claim carries a citation; state pages are verified against the statutes themselves
- Dated facts carry a checked date
- We say when something is genuinely unsettled
- We don’t publish fabricated 50-state tables
- We describe licensed code sets rather than reproducing them
- We correct errors and note material corrections