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Dental Billing Outsourcing & Benefits: A Walkthrough

Carestack

Challenges in insurance payments largely occur between insurance carriers and dental practices. Annual revenue generated by an average dental practice is around $1,500,000. The complexity of dental insurance billing has made this ‘task’ into a full-time skill-based ‘job’. . The Bigger Picture.

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ADA Task force seeking dental community’s comments on CDT Code enhancement

Denticle

CDT (Common Dental Terminology) is the insurance code numbers that offices use when billing procedures to insurance companies. Obviously, having a standardized list of procedural codes streamlines things such as predetermination of benefits and actual billing for procedures performed.

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Vaage Law Obtains $3,550,000 Verdict in a Dental Malpractice Case

Dentistry Today

How does a 5-year-old child end up unconscious and unresponsive following a routine dental procedure? Hernandez suffered a hypoxic brain injury from oversedation by a combination of oral conscious sedation medication used during a dental procedure at Rose Dental Group. Hernandez and violated the law.

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Dental Notes Made Faster, Easier, Better

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

As you create your dental note, Toothnotes will generate the suggested Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT) codes essential to billing. Toothnotes will help your entire team create dental notes that are thorough, accurate and easy. Compatible with all dental software. KEY BENEFITS.

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Spot These Warning Signs of a Bad Dentist [Don’t Get Ripped Off]

Ask The Dentist

The right dental health partner for you is the dentist who is wholly concerned with your overall health and not the health of her pocketbook. This is my advice on how to find an honest and ethical dental practice that will be your partner in health for a lifetime. The Subjective Nature of Dental Diagnosis.

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Spot These Warning Signs of a Bad Dentist [Don’t Get Ripped Off]

Ask The Dentist

The right dental health partner for you is the dentist who is wholly concerned with your overall health and not the health of her pocketbook. This is my advice on how to find an honest and ethical dental practice that will be your partner in health for a lifetime. The Subjective Nature of Dental Diagnosis.

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California: Sanctuary State for Disciplined Dentists

Dentistry Today

There exists great variability between states in efficacy of dental board regulatory oversight and discipline. Ultimately, responsibility for a healthy functioning dental board rests upon state governors who appoint members (and can demand resignations) and state attorneys general who assign a board’s staffing of legal counsel.