"Laser Disinfection Using D4999"
A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast · Andrew Johnston
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Show Notes
On this week's episode of Fast Facts – Coding Edition with Teresa Duncan, MS Teresa gives us a breakdown of D4999 and its use for laser disinfection. She shares good news, and not so great news surrounding the coding and billing of laser disinfection and tips to help you avoid an audit finding that you committed fraud!
Quotes:
"So a denial is if they decide to not cover the procedure, but they're going to allow you to bill a patient. That's a denial. A disallow is when they decide not to pay for it, but they also aren't going to let you charge the patient."
"Doing a dummy code for the purposes of getting reimbursed is actually, I don't want to go too much into it, but it's a little bit of deception and so it could be counted as fraud because there's motive behind it."
Links:
DentistRX: https://www.dentistrx.com
More Fast Facts: https://www.ataleoftwohygienists.com/fast-facts/
Teresa Duncan Website: https://www.katrinasanders.com
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Chew On This Podcast: https://chewonthisdentalpodcast.libsyn.com/