dental insurance

Assignment of Benefits: How to Ensure Your Dental Practice Actually Gets Paid

Tired of insurance checks ending up in your patients’ mailboxes? This blog post reveals how to lock down assignment of benefits and protect your revenue. Learn actionable front desk protocols and signature rules while identifying verification strategies to help stop fraud. Stop chasing patients for money and ensure your dental practice actually gets paid every time.

Cracking the Code: Medical vs. Dental Necessity

Navigating medical claims in a dental practice can be incredibly frustrating. To ensure accurate reimbursement and protect your office from audits, you must understand the vital differences between medical and dental necessity. Discover how the ADA and AMA define care, how the cause of damage dictates coverage, and get actionable tips for flawless clinical documentation and coding.

Plan Stipulations vs. Patient Needs: Don’t “Wing” Maryland Bridges

Don’t let Maryland bridge claims “wing” your revenue cycle. While conservative and aesthetic, these restorations often lead to coding puzzles and even denials. Learn how to accurately report pontics and retainers, match materials correctly, and handle incurred liability dates. Ensure your practice gets paid and your documentation stays precise with these essential CDT billing strategies for resin-bonded fixed partial dentures.

Sales & Use Tax: Don’t Let This Be a Pain in the Tooth

With over 13,000 tax jurisdictions, compliance with sales and use tax is a financial necessity for dental practices. This blog post breaks all of this down, explains vital CDT codes needed for reporting, and offers tips for a clean audit. Keep your practice’s financial health as bright as your patients’ smiles, and don’t let sales and use tax become a pain in the tooth.

Beyond the Chair: Why Teledentistry is the Future (and the Future is NOW)

Teledentistry is no longer just a pandemic-era pivot; it’s the future of dentistry. Discover how the four modalities — including synchronous and asynchronous — can streamline triage and boost revenue. We break down essential CDT codes and HIPAA compliance standards to help you confidently transition your practice into the future of modern dental care.