by Jon Nierman | Aug 29, 2023 | Blog
Have you been eagerly providing oral appliance therapy to your patients, only to encounter disappointment due to the lack of support from their physicians? This is one of the most common frustrations among sleep dentists, but the good news is that there are steps you...
by niermanpm | May 25, 2023 | News
Dental Sleep Practice | Summer 2023 Issue Learn More For more than three decades, Nierman Practice Management has been dedicated to offering exceptional support to dental practices in various areas, including medical billing, dental sleep medicine, and TMJ....
by niermanpm | Jan 6, 2023 | Blog
You may have heard the expression, “soap it up.” In healthcare, this expression applies to infection control, but a SOAP note is also a method of documentation used explicitly by medical and dental providers. A SOAP (subjective, objective, assessment, and...
by MS | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog
Medical Billing in Dentistry; What is the difference between coinsurance and copay? Are you, as a dental office, starting to bill medical insurance? If so, you may have noticed that some of the terms in the medical billing arena require further explanation. One of the...
by niermanpm | Sep 2, 2022 | Blog
Great news! Your patient’s medical insurance may cover Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT). This information is especially intriguing for dental practices since many dental insurance companies do not offer CBCT reimbursement. Which brings us to the questions:...
by niermanpm | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
Is your dental practice billing bone grafts to medical insurance? If not, you will want to read on! Medical insurers commonly cover services rendered in the dental practice setting. Dental practices across the country have been able to help their patients maximize...
by niermanpm | Aug 12, 2022 | Blog
When choosing a dental-to-medical billing service, there are several key decision factors to consider beyond price. You have likely heard the age-old saying, “you get what you pay for”. Medical billing services are no exception, and this adage is...
by niermanpm | Aug 3, 2022 | Blog
There are many good reasons to bill medical insurance from the dental practice, and one of them is that dental insurers require the dental practice to file some services to the medical insurer first! Suppose you have not run into this scenario already in your dental...
by niermanpm | Jul 21, 2022 | Blog
The term “TMJ” has an average of 201,000 searches a month. That’s over 2.4 million times per year! Other popular searches include “temporomandibular joint dysfunction,” which ranks at an average of 90,500 a month or over 1 million a year,...
by niermanpm | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog
ICD-10 2023 updates are here! If you are reading this, you are likely wondering about the release of new billing codes for medical billing in dentistry such as sleep apnea appliances, TMJ treatment and oral surgeries. Well, you are in luck; the new medical billing...