Dental practices strive to provide high-quality dental services and exceptional patient care while handling numerous challenges such as patient expectations, technological shifts, staff shortage and other administrative challenges. One crucial challenge when it comes...
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The Alternate Benefit Clause – A Key Determinant of Dental Insurance Coverage
Understanding their dental insurance plan is critical for patients to make importance choices about their dental treatment. Dentists recommend the best treatment for patients based on their needs...
CDT Codes to Report the Services Provided by a Dental Hygienist
Dental hygienists are oral health professionals responsible for preventing and treating oral diseases. These licensed healthcare professionals typically work under the supervision of dentists in...
Why Does “D2950” Dental Core Buildup Code Face More Claim Denials?
The D2950 dental code is used to describe a "Core Buildup, Including Any Pins" in dental procedures. D2950 - Core Buildup, Including Any Pins A core buildup is necessary to provide a stable...
All about Teledentistry – Learn the Billing and Coding Guidelines
This could be the most relevant topic we are discussing amid this COVID-19 outbreak. Now, as most dental offices are closed, dentists can use telehealth systems to continue to serve their patients....
Strategies to Prevent E/M Mistakes and Denials
A large volume of the claims processed by medical billing companies are those for evaluation and management (E&M) services. The key to maximizing payment and avoiding risk of audits is proper...
COVID-19 – New CPT Code for Lab Testing and Revised Specimen Handling Guidelines
As a medical billing company, we keep up to date with billing and coding changes and report on current and emerging healthcare issues, the latest of which is COVID-19. A new coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Report Narcolepsy Sleep Disorder with These Medical Codes
Narcolepsy is defined as a chronic neurological disorder that causes persistent sleepiness, sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and cataplexy. Sudden episodes of deep sleep can occur often even at...
Documenting Gout – Symptoms, Diagnosis and ICD-10 Codes
Regarded as a common and complex form of arthritis, gout causes sudden pain, redness, swelling, and stiffness in the joints. The condition is caused by the buildup of crystals made of a substance...
Ways to Improve HEDIS Reporting Efficiency
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a system maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for evaluating the ability of health plans and providers...
Overcoming Key Challenges in Dental Billing and Coding
In today’s healthcare environment, dental practices face various billing and coding challenges. CDT codes are subject to frequent changes which are not always easy to understand. Billing dental...