Smart Dental Billing

The most successful dental offices understand that dental billing is a team sport. From clinical teams to physicians to dental billing administrators, every team member plays an important role in a successful dental billing process. Clinical notes, X-rays, periodontograms and more – all of which are critical to sending clean claims that are promptly reimbursed. Whether or not your dental practice participates in dental insurance, the dental billing process is a large part of managing your revenue cycle. But what is dental billing? Since this is an important determinant of your practice’s cash flow, it is important to fully understand what dental billing entails and the full scope of the dental billing process. Dental billing includes all aspects of sending completed treatments to insurance companies for reimbursement under the patient’s insurance plan. This starts with making sure the correct CDT code is in the claim and finally the payment from the insurance company. But there are many steps in the middle, and missing one of them could result in delayed payments from the insurance company.