Advanced Dental Billing: How to Find Diagnosis Patients for-Advanced Dental Billing: How to Find Diagnosis Patients for Extended Payments

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Dr. Christine Taksin presented an in-depth webinar on updated dental and medical billing codes, emphasizing that providers must read the full code descriptors, not just the short computer-listed summaries. She explained that many changes this year involve new procedure codes, revised language for radiographs and CBCT imaging, and clearer distinctions between image capture and interpretation. A major theme was compliance: procedures must be properly ordered, documented, and coded to match what was actually done, even if insurance later downcodes or denies payment.<br /><br />She focused heavily on periodontal staging and grading, arguing that perio should be treated as a systemic infection linked to diabetes, smoking, cancer treatment, pregnancy, and other chronic conditions. She encouraged offices to stop treating every visit as a simple prophylaxis and instead tailor care plans, document risk, and use appropriate diagnostic and preventive codes, including oral cancer screening, saliva testing, HBA1C testing, nutritional counseling, tobacco counseling, and caries risk assessment.<br /><br />Dr. Taksin also highlighted expanded insurance opportunities through Delta Dental, Medicare Advantage, and other carriers that now support extra periodontal or medical-dental benefit visits for patients with systemic disease. She stressed the importance of informed refusal, patient education, home-care reinforcement, and three-month maintenance intervals. Finally, she urged offices to use available online tools, AI imaging software, and state-specific laws to maximize both patient health outcomes and legitimate reimbursement.

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Advanced Dental Billing: How to Find Diagnosis Patients for Extended Payments Christine Taxin Adjunct Professor, I am licensed by the ADA and AMA Pace Certified Subject: 550 Practice Management and Human Relations Credits: 1.5 Audience: Dentists Fee: Fee: $125 (non-members); $75 (members); $37.50 (students) Description This course will let you start to think about the transmission of infections that are now part of everyone's dental and understand why medical is available to many patients. Learning Objectives Why these benefits are available What companies offer them The procedure codes for each type of illness that allows the patient to access they payments Speaker Bio Oral Health Wellness Providers Advanced Dental Billing and Medical Billing for every patient.. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading authorities on working collaboratively with medical and dental providers, greatly aided by her working relationships with prominent doctors at Buffalo State University, Harvard and NYU Dental University, Pacific University. She has written workbooks and has been a part of the ongoing changes within our field.

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dental billing codes

medical billing codes

periodontal staging

periodontal grading

CBCT imaging

radiograph interpretation

compliance documentation

oral cancer screening

Medicare Advantage

insurance reimbursement