CrossCoding: Medical Billing in Dentistry Course Description

Learn how to get paid by medical insurance in a dental practice from start-to-finish. Billing medical insurance for dental has many benefits, and every dental practice can do it!

Join us for the renowned CE course that has helped thousands of dental practices increase their case acceptance and revenue by obtaining medical reimbursement.

You should be taking advantage of cross coding and dental-to-medical billing if you are involved in these services:

Rose Nierman’s Cross Coding seminar has helped thousands of dental practitioners implement medical billing for dental sleep medicine, TMD, oral surgeries, and more.

By Billing Medical Insurance in Dentistry, You Can:

• Differentiate your practice
• Attain higher case acceptance
• Increase revenue

Nierman Practice Management has been the national leader and innovator in helping dental practices attains these goals for over 27 years.

Topics Covered:

• How to integrate medical billing into your dental office for sleep apnea, TMJ, implants, oral surgery, bone grafts, CT scans, and more.
• The importance of documentation and records, why they are vital for reimbursement.
• Verifying benefits, pre-authorizing patients’ medical insurance benefits.
• Searching for medical policies online.
• Using CPT, ICD and HCPCS codes, including the new ICD-10 diagnosis codes in effect October 1st, 2015.
• How to complete the CMS-1500 medical claim form.
• The pros and cons to being “in-network” or “out-of-network”, using “GAP” exceptions.

What Makes Our Dental Medical Cross Coding Course Special

• Receive medical reimbursement for services you already provide.
• Ethical Billing – Learn what NOT to do from Cross-Coding Pioneer Rose Nierman.
• Get updated on the October 1, 2015 ICD-10 Transition, Medicare, and private carrier policies.

Rose Nierman has more experience teaching dental practices the correct and most efficient ways to implement a successful medical billing protocol than any other group. In fact, her name has become synonymous with cross-coding & medical billing in dentistry.

Ms. Nierman pioneered the cross-coding field in dentistry in 1988 by writing the first manual and software for cross-coding, and sharing her knowledge across the country to dental practices seeking to bill medical insurance for TMJ treatment.

Since that time, Nierman Practice Management has become a major resource for dental practices offering medically necessary services.

Ms. Nierman stays on the cutting edge of current medical billing knowledge, and presents the most ethical protocols for billing. From her 30+ years of experience in the dental-medical billing field, she is a wealth of knowledge, and her warm-hearted, energetic speaking style makes medical billing fun!

Agenda

In Detail – The Benefits of Medical Billing for Dentists

What are the benefits of dental medical cross coding? And why does it seem like more and more dental practices are accepting and billing medical insurance? What’s in it for them?

Increased Case Acceptance – By billing the patient’s medical insurance, you are making your treatment easily obtainable to your patients. Patients who have a consultation for a procedure may opt against moving forward because of cost of treatment. What if you could verify that the patient’s medical insurance would cover a majority of the treatment, significantly lowering their out-of-pocket cost? They are much more likely to move forward with treatment knowing they are covered.

Shift Towards Dentists as Oral-Systemic Health Providers – Within the last decade, dentistry has become increasingly involved in the patient’s overall health and wellness. Many dental practices now provide nutrition counseling, oral cancer screening, headache and orofacial pain treatment. It just so happens the fastest growing field in dentistry, dental sleep medicine (sleep apnea dentistry), is commonly covered under medical insurance. Learning medical billing for dentists can help complete your oral-system health practice.

Standing Out From the Crowd- With over 200,000 dentists in the U.S.alone, it seems like there is now a dental practice on every street corner. How do you maintain an edge over your peers? You are perhaps the most qualified, experienced, and friendly dental practice in your city, but if a patient has to pay out-of-pocket for a service the dentist next-door will bill to medical insurance, the patient may choose them instead.

You should attend this course if you are interested in the following:

Nierman Practice Management is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Nierman Practice Management designates this activity for 12 continuing education credits.

Refund and Cancellation Policies:
All cancellations are to be made in writing. Registrations will be refunded at 100% for cancellations received up to 7 days after initial registration.
· An assessment fee of 15% will be taken for refunds requested 8 days after initial registration if prior to 21 days before course.
· An assessment fee of 40% will be taken for refunds requested less than 21 days prior to the start of the course.
*Offices may choose to transfer the registration to another attendee or hold a credit in the full amount for up to 12 months. Credits are only good towards other Nierman Education programs.