Keeping Your Practice Healthy: Medical Billing in Dental Practices ...
... Therefore, we can use our CDT codes on medical claim ... the challenge to learn how to code dental procedures ... who have both medical and dental insurance plans can ...

Tips for practice growth in difficult times - Dental Economics
... education, communications, treatment-planning, patient financing, Carol Tekavec. ... Get a current code book, such as my “Dental Insurance Coding Handbook ...

Coding when dental procedures fall under medical guidelines ...
... Just as ICD is not a static code set, I am sure the same will apply ... further indicator that points to this change in dentistry is that our CDT evaluation codes ...

Recordkeeping Basics: Good for Patients, Essential for You! ...
... and signature (or personalized electronic code) in addition ... Carol Tekavec, CDA, RDH, developed a paper dental ... was the columnist on dental insurance for Dental ...

Perio maintenance forever? - RDH
... However, due to concerns expressed by clinicians to the ADA CDT code committee, a clarifying statement was added to allow dentists to judge how each patient is ...

Readers' Forum - RDH
... As I opened the March 2009 RDH, it dawned on me it has been one year since my article titled, “A CDT Code for Hygienists Dentolytical Analysis,” was ...

Orthodontic relapse and the need for an interdisciplinary solution ...
... You can find the insurance codes — the same ones that orthodontists use — for setting fees and receiving payment by going directly to the CDT Code Book. ...

Understanding coding - RDH
... Current Dental Terminology — is the “bible” for dental insurance. ... we need to know and understand CDT and what ... the importance of the correct code and how ...

The challenges of implementing oral cancer screening technologies ...
... What do I charge? The CDT includes oral cancer screening in all of the examination code descriptions. The code for adjunctive screening ...

<b>Practical Claims and Coding column: "Code Changes ...
... D4000-D4999 section of the CDT to change ... Carol Tekavec, CDA, RDH, is the president of Stepping ... informed consent forms, and the "Dental Insurance Coding Handbook ...

Principal Financial Group takes some of the bite from cancer ...
... costs in a given zip code and a database of network providers who offer discounted charges and fees. For more information about dental insurance from The ...

Hard to Code - RDH
... Interestingly, although the CDT-2007-2008 does not place ... Carol Tekavec CDA RDH is a practicing dental hygienist, author of the Dental Insurance Coding Handbook ...

Ghosts of Golfodontia - RDH
... “Please see Vice President of Archival Security for authorization code. ... the projection of 15 million Americans with some form of dental insurance by 1970. ...

Life-saving oral cancer prevention and detection tools - Dental ...
... The dentist may bill dental insurance and/or medical insurance. The 2007-2008 CDT code for reporting this procedure is D7288 and it covers all locations in the ...

Coding and Considerations for Crowns, Veneers, Inlays, Onlays, and ...
... is no code or separate definition for an "overlay" in the CDT 2007-2008. ... Carol Tekavec, CDA, RDH, is the author of the Dental Insurance Coding Handbook ...

Reader's Forum - RDH
... I found the article "A CDT Code for Hygienists" (March 2008 RDH) very interesting ... I had to go to my malpractice insurance carrier's legal department to get the ...

A CDT Code For Hygienists - RDH
A CDT Code For Hygienists. ... I propose the ADA board adopt the Dentolytical Analysis (DA) to be included in the diagnostic section of the CDT code book. ...

Chairside CAD/CAM dentistry with Dr. Gary Severance - Dental ...
... Develop, and Deliver.) After four years, millions of lines of software code, and much ... Lee Culp, CDT, is exploring this capability with thin veneers, as well as ...

Endodontic reimbursement - Dental Economics
... D2950 or D2954 with your submission of procedure code D2980. ... Tom Limoli Jr ... of Atlanta Dental Consultants and the author of “Dental Insurance and Reimbursement ...

AEDs in dental offices - Dental Economics
... Liability insurance: As with any safety program, dentists should carry liability insurance of the ... Section 64B5-17.015 of the Florida Administrative Code states ...

Patterson Dental will distribute handpiece technology - Dental ...
Patterson Dental will distribute handpiece technology. MONTREAL ... System. The system is a handpiece upgrade from ProDrive Systems Ltd. ...

Electric handpiece helps eliminate need for air-driven handpieces ...
Electric handpiece helps eliminate need for air-driven handpieces. ... Weighing only 67 grams, the electric handpiece helps lessen hand fatigue. ...

God bless and keep us all! - Dental Economics
... Look for the fee survey in the December issue. In September, I attended the Greater St. Louis Dental Society's Mid Continent Dental Meeting. ...

AADC 2009 spring workshop to focus on "Navigating Change&#034 ...
... "The Dark Side of Dental Insurance, Episode IV" A panel headed by Tom M. Limoli, Jr. President, Limoli and Associates/Atlanta Dental Consultants, Inc. ...

Equipment–/technology–driven vs. design&amp ...
... For more on this topic, go to www.dentaleconomics.com and search using the following key words: dental office design, Dr. Jeff Carter, Pat Carter, Dave Fazio. ...

Which type are you? - Dental Economics
For more on this topic, go to www.dentaleconomics.com and search using the following key words: dental office design, client types, Dr. Jeff Carter, Pat Carter ...

Patterson Dental releases Smile Channel 9 - Dental Economics
... the "Tech Minute" segments trace the evolution of the technology used in operatories today with features on cone beam 3D imaging, lasers, and CEREC CAD/CAM. ...

Patterson Dental releases Smile Channel 9 - Dental Economics
... the "Tech Minute" segments trace the evolution of the technology used in operatories today with features on cone beam 3D imaging, lasers, and CEREC CAD/CAM. ...

Best states to be a dental hygienist - DentistryIQ
... payments, meaning a healthy chunk of the $66,000 plus change in salary covers the ... state is just so-so in percentage of adult visits to the dentist (25th) and ...

Share the Care - RDH
... their appointment and excited at the thought of their children seeing a dentist for the ... and a half her husband had lost his job with a salary over $100,000 a ...