Each Current Dental Terminology (CDT) code is a set of three written components for dental procedures that cover oral health and dentistry. The components are as follows: The procedural code is a five ...

After years of working to better understand how accurate coding affects the dental revenue cycle, I attended this year’s ADA Code Maintenance Committee meeting as an observer. What I found confirmed ...

The HCPCS system, however, underwent several changes before adoption by commercial payers, which action was eventually mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in ...

A health insurance claim coding system, comprising: a network and a database in communication with the network to store patient data and medical practitioner data; a provider terminal utilized by the ...

Intensive coding by Medicare Advantage (MA) plans raised enrollees' risk scores and may have allowed companies to pocket tens of billions of dollars more than if traditional Medicare had covered the ...