As a dentist the perfect impression to create the crown that will seat on the first insert makes your day. Tunneled into a mouth creating the aesthetically pleasing moment when the patient tears up and thanks you is worth the blood sweat and tears shed...
The open enrollment period for health and dental coverage offered through Covered California, California's benefit marketplace created by the federal Affordable Care Act continues through Jan. 31. Since open enrollment began on Nov.1, more than 60,000 enrollees have selected dental coverage through Covered California's Family...
9/22/2015-From the CDAUnited Concordia changed how periapical X-rays would be paid this summer and CDA Practice Support, after receiving calls from members about the changes, reached out to the company on behalf of dentists to get additional information.In its June 23 letter to dentists, United...
United Concordia Companies, Inc. will begin denying claims for any periapical radiograph taken routinely on a patient who does not have complaints or symptoms. This statement is from the ADA News August 17, 2015.At eAssist, we know that we must do everything in our power...
May 18, 2015By Kelly SoderlundThe ADA Practice Institute has developed guidance on coordination of benefits — a scenario that's increasingly more common as more Americans register for coverage under the Affordable Care Act and medical plans offer embedded dental services.Dental plans coordinate a patient's benefits...
Dominion Dental Services, a leading dental insurer and administrator of dental and vision benefits in Alexandria, VA announced that they have acquired DentaQuest Mid Atlantic and DentaQuest Virginia.Upon contacting them about claims sent to DentaQuest just prior and now, there will be a delay to...
Some 35 states have passed new legislation that no longer allows insurers to require dental providers to give discount for services not covered under an insured dental plan. Listed below are the states that have passed this legislation and the link to the document source....
“The Affordable Care Act extended health insurance to millions of Americans in 2014.. About 6.7 million Americans gained health insurance and 1.1 million gained stand-alone dental benefits through the health insurance marketplaces in 2014. Individuals had until Feb. 15 to meet the law’s individual mandate...
Before you blame the payers for denied claims check your offices processing systems for errors and omissions.Rejected claims are different from denied claims. Rejected claims were never adjudicated by the insurance company because they were rejected before they were received. They were rejected because something...
Often, when the tooth isn’t broken down enough to warrant the coverage under a dental insurance policy the search goes for the magic wand of words to get the procedure covered. Indirect restorations such as inlays and onlays are often not covered because the alternate...