Webinar on Dental Medical Cross Coding by Marianne H Harper (Director The Art of Practice Management)

Overview: Medical Coding in dental practices is gradually becoming a necessity. Many dental practices have long been sheltered from having to explain to dental carriers why they performed the patients' procedures. They have simply submitted codes for the procedures that were performed.

It has been an entirely different case for medical practices. They have been required to submit the reasons for the completion of the different medical procedures along with submitting the procedures performed through the use of diagnosis codes and procedure codes. The diagnosis code set is used to identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, injuries, human response patterns, and medical signs. Dental practices need to learn how to use this code set so that they can accurately show the medical necessity of the applicable dental procedures. Diagnosis codes must be chosen that have a true relationship to the procedures performed. It can only be through the use of these diagnosis codes that dental procedures can be considered medically necessary and, therefore, covered by a patient's medical plan. The procedure code set was developed as a means for medical providers to report medical services with a uniform language that accurately describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. By making this code-set uniform, it becomes an effective means for reliable communication between medical providers and insurance companies. Dental practices will need to become familiar with this coding system so that they can accurately communicate the procedures that they performed to medical insurance carriers. Once accurate codes are chosen for procedures performed, they must be submitted on the most current medical claim form. This form is then submitted to medical insurance plans either electronically or on a paper form. Once received by the insurance carrier, claims will go through an adjudication process whereby they will be reviewed for eligibility of the patient and coverage of the procedures. Once a determination is made, the insurance carrier will make a determination of benefits and will then notify the patient and medical provider as to their decisions on coverage and benefits. This is why it is so important that dental practices understand this full process so that they can submit accurate claims for those dental services that the dentist believes to be medically necessary. Dental practices that implement dental-medical cross coding will be able to submit medical claims to a patient's medical plan and then follow that with submitting to a patient's dental plan if the patient has both types of coverage, thereby providing optimum benefits for the patients.

Price : $139.00 
Contact Info:
MentorHealth
Phone No: 1-800-385-1607
FaX: 302-288-6884 
support@mentorhealth.com
Event Link: http://bit.ly/Dental-Medical-CrossCoding
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