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You have a patient that is scheduled with your hygieneist and your dentist in the same day. Your hygieneist does perio charting and discusses perio disease in depth with the patient. The patient then sees the dentist for there appointment and he does panoramic film and a complete comprehensive dental exam. Can you charge D0180 and D0150 at the same visit<
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On the CMS-1500 section 24-E (Diagnosis Code) do these codes come from the ICD-9-CM book? Thank you :)
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We are having issues with Delta dental accepting our Occeous surgery services. They don't like the D4260 because we use the FDA approved Periolase. We have tried D4999 by report and sending in the SRP, occlusal adjustment, follow up prophy and perio maint. They are not liking that either and are requesting that we adjust all but the SRP. Any suggestions?
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On the CMS-1500 section 24-E (Diagnosis Code) do these codes come from the ICD-9-CM book? Thank you :)
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> I was wondering if there was any standard set in place for acceptable > periodontal charting. We frequently receive claims for periodontal > work but the charting to support the services is well over 1 year old.
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How many times can you charge out code 41899 and 00170?

This is for pediatric dental treatment under general anesthesia in an out patient clinic.

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Is upper and lower jaw surgery considered a bilateral procedure? My understanding of a bilateral procedure is on each side of the body. Thank you, Shauna
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I am looking for a diagnosis code for file tip broken off in tooth from root canal. The oral surgeon is going to preform apico with retrograde filling.
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I wanted to know if you have a location where you share what documentation requirements are needed to support the billing of all new CDT 2014 codes. For example D0601-D0603?
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I was advised that our dental hygienist cannot diagnose a patient but in ICD10, if a patient comes in for a prophy, should they use the two following diagnosis? If so, if the abnormal dental cleaning is used, the hygienist would have to add the abnormal diagnosis. At this point, does the dental provider have to add an addendum stating the abnormality? What is required? Dental cleaning Z01.20 Dental cleaning with abnormal finding Z01.21
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