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According to best practices periodontal charting should be performed once a year on a healthy patient and once every six months on a patient with peridontal disease.

This is for the surgical phase only; the prosthesis should be bill out separately.

Each carrier will have specific guidelines on this...it is always best to check with the carrier. In general here is the global period for each procedure D7220-D7241 Extraction of 3rds has a 10 day global period. Bone grafting has a 10-30 day global period depending on the procedure. D6010 Dental implants has a 30 day (more)

You will need the diagnosis code along with the correct E code (accident or trauma code) to accompany the following CPT codes... D7210 crosscode 41899 D6104 is not a valid code bill as CDT D6010 crosscode 21248

You will need to append the correct ICD-9-CM codes to the claim to prove "medical necessity" and therefore bill out as a medical condition...your diagnosis codes tell the story. It tells "why" a procedure needs to be preformed and it proves "medical necessity". For example: patient has gross carries and is unable to eat causing (more)

We do not train on software as there are to many out there...your best option is to contact the vendor (Emdeon) and ask them if they have a demo version for you to use.

As of yet there is no set code, you may use an unlisted oral surgery code for this.

CDT code D2921 is new as of 1/1/2014...meaning this code did not exsist prior to this date.

The most appropriate code would be D2999 (unspecified restorative procedure) make sure to add a short narraitive to support your code.

The best code would be D7530 (removal of foreign body).