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Lack of patients, confusing applications, deadlines, and slower federal response have led many dental practices to the brink of financial collapse. You and your employees need to get paid, and without elective patient procedures due to a mandated COVID-19 shutdown, profits are too low to...
Adequate business staffing has always been a dilemma in many dental practices. Do we have too many or not enough staff? Everyone is busy, and still, many tasks don't get completed. Maybe the practice can’t afford to hire more than one experienced Business Coordinator (Office...
Our partner, Dr. Charles Blair and the team at Practice Booster are the unmatched experts at helping dental practices properly code for maximum reimbursement. In April 2018, they authored the following article entitled Telehealth/ Teledentistry: The Future Is Here in their newsletter. Much of this...
Our office was undergoing re-credentialing issues with United Healthcare. We had over $16,000 in aged claims for one provider with United Healthcare. United Healthcare kept denying our providers claims stating he was out of network. I called Careington who informed me that this provider was...
Most dental practices will estimate insurance payments based on the benefits statement and then submit the claim for payment after services are rendered. The patient is trusting that the business coordinator has the correct information and the insurance will pay as demonstrated on the treatment...
HIPAA’s Purpose The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, otherwise known as HIPAA, is the one of the most important pieces of legislation that your practice is required to enforce. HIPAA is a regulatory program that mandates your employees to follow a set of rules that...
There are a lot of changes coming to dentistry in 2020 and all the "breaking news" and hype articles can be a lot to keep up with. So, we've compiled one master list of the Top 5 “must-read” articles and changes impacting dentistry early in 2020—from...
D4381 Localized delivery of antimicrobial agents via a controlled release vehicle into diseased crevicular tissue, per tooth(to suppress pathogenic microbiota) Reported on a per tooth basis by the site. A flat rate per site such as $55.00 for two sites on the same tooth. The narrative...
I have recently been reflecting about how many lives eAssist has changed with our ability to provide Peace of Mind to our clients by outsourcing their billing needs. As a single mom who is perpetually juggling my work life balance, I started day dreaming up...
Many practices I work with just don’t put enough effort into their recall system—and they’re struggling because of it. They tend to send out generic postcards to patients they haven’t seen in a while and think that will be enough to get them back in...
