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Please provide me with the following: 1. Medical and dental billing codes to bill for taking patient's picture for identification purposes. 3. Medical and dental codes to bill for x-rays reading and interpretation by a radiologist.
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what are the appropriate medical and dental codes to bill for 3d cone beam scanning. Is there a separate code to bill when views are reconstructed to tomography, panoramic and submentovertex
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What is the dental code for surgical guides for implants.
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Please provide answers to the following questions: 1. What is the appropriate medical code to bill for impressions of a TMJ appliance 2. What is the appropriate medical code to bill for TMJ appliances 3. What is the appropriate dental code to bill for impressions for a TMJ appliance 4. What is the appropriate dental code to bill for a TMJ appliance 5. What is the appropriate medical code to bill for impressions sent to an outside lab for an oral appliance for sleep 6. What is the appropriate medical code to bill for the insertion or delivery of the oral appliance to a patient 7. What is the appropriate dental code to bill for impressions sent to an outside lab for an oral appliance for sleep 8. What is the appropriate dental code to bill for the insertion or delivery of the oral appliance to a patient Thank you
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We have recently employed a pediatric dentist. We are having general dentists, outside of our practice, referring patient's to us for treatment. In these cases, the general dentist have already done the patient's exam/recall. Which code is the most appropriate to use when our pediatric dentist initially examines the patient? We are unsure on whether to use an exam code or a consultation code. Do we code differently if we do the patients treatment or if we cannot do the treatment and have to refer them out ourselves?
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Besides a dental hygienist who else can perform D0190 screening of a patient or D0191 assessment of a patient? and if these are billable services, if they are what are the billing requirements? there isn't much info on these codes in the Dental Coding Guide by Charles Blair DDS.
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At what age do you charge adult prophy instead of child prophy?
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How would you code the following? Patient presents to smooth off #9-ILF, chipped recently and originally placed 2 days earlier. Removed No decay, VOCO (prime/bond), Flowable Composite Shade: A2 finish, polish, checked occlusion.
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Is it common practice to code D0120 with a restorative code as well? If so, must it be specifically stated in the clinical note that an exam was done? Can D0140 be used with restorative, extraction and palliative codes?
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The ADA book does not specify a time increment on the 9230. Can that code be charged out more than once at a single visit?
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