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D9110 is a misunderstood code as many offices code D0140 for emergency visits when treating a patient for pain or discomfort. D0140 is an evaluation code and limited to the "one evaluation per six months" or "two evaluations per year" rule. Consider reporting D9110 for...
Jaycee Brown has been with eAssist for four and a half years. She began her involvement in the dental field as an assistant at 15 years old and fell in love with the field. After graduating high school, she began working with eAssist in the IT and...
By Natalie Lucken, Account Manager Your new patient has walked into the office after 10 years without a cleaning, bracing for the bad news, with an elephant of guilt on their shoulders...
By: Belle DuCharme, CDPMA, Director of CE/PACE Résumé fraud or application fraud refers to any act that involves intentionally providing fictitious, exaggerated, or otherwise misleading information on a job application or résumé in hopes of persuading a potential employer to hire an applicant for a job...
What makes your dental practice memorable to patients? Branding, once established, is how your practice is perceived based on every single interaction you have with your patients. This interaction can be planned or it can be unofficial or even accidental. Planned marketing can be direct...
Belle DuCharme, RDA, CDPMA I first found eAssist with an online search. My background in dentistry spanned some forty plus years and I was looking for a new challenge. Working from home enticed me to apply as flying all over the country as a dental business...
Being a member of the “Boomer” generation means that there are a lot of us and we want to live healthy industrious lives as long as we can. From age 60 to 100 can be upwards to 70% or more of the patient base in...
In the past, most dental insurance policies were stand alone with a reasonable deductible of about $50.00 a calendar or contract year. Now, since many policies are both medical and dental combined the total deductible applies to medical and dental benefits for the year. Because...
Practices cannot survive without a regular healthy cash flow yet many practices seem to think that practice collections happen after statements are sent out or after insurance companies send the bulk checks. For most practices, an ideal collection ratio is 98 percent of adjusted production, with...
I found eAssist when I was searching online for work at home options. Working in a dental office for 15 was taking a toll on me. The office I worked in was very busy and very noisy. Drama? Yup! The stress was intense, and causing health...
