P-9 Medical Billing "Specialty Endodontics"

CE Hours: 0.75

Description: The Big Change: Identifying Medical Necessity.Transforming Into the New World of Medical Providers Sending Referrals and Oral-Systemic Issues is the most advanced information we have regarding documentation of a medical necessity.  The advancement of CBCT to be the "standard of care" within Endodontics has advanced your treatments and allowed patients to understand that treatment can be lifesaving."Medical necessity is defined as accepted health care services and supplies provided by health care entities, appropriate to evaluating and treating a disease, condition, illness or injury and consistent with the applicable standard of care.This course will allow you to learn what and how to use diagnostic codes to describe the infections and treatments you are providing to save your patients' lives.

Learning Objectives:  

• Use a comprehensive medical history, information if needed by the medical provider, and the available tests that we use in our field to pinpoint the type of infection we are dealing with.
• Develop the need for patients to understand that you are not treating teeth but the active infection traveling throughout their body. This is even more critical if they already have a systemic issue. In a healthy patient, this can cause many other systemic problems if not taken care of quickly. Patients need to understand that you are the providers who can help remove infections.
• The change in documentation is a must, including the SOAP system that all insurance companies depend on to provide payment. It also protects you from malpractice.  "The identification of Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and plan are the keys to providing a simple way to ensure you have what you need for charts contain all this information to use as your medical necessity.