Understanding Dental Sleep Apnea Therapy
May 28, 2018
If you’re still not offering dental sleep apnea therapy, it’s time to get started. More and more patients are educated about these treatment options, and you will likely have an increasing number of requests from patients as awareness of sleep apnea dental therapies continues to grow. Many dentists are still referring patients to their competitors for sleep apnea therapy, but we all know that’s a slippery slope. Instead of sending patients to other dentists for sleep apnea therapy, we recommend working with Brady Billing to offer these treatments without needing to worry about any of the hassles associated with providing sleep apnea services for your patients. In this post, we’ll walk you through three things every dentist needs to understand before they start offering sleep dentistry services. We often attend dental sleep apnea seminars and would love to discuss your billing options and help you being providing patients sleep apnea treatments.
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Is There a Difference Between Preauthorization & Predetermination?
May 16, 2018
There is, but the specifics of medical coverage preauthorization and predetermination can be complex and frustrating for dental office teams who are already overwhelmed with processing and filing dental benefit claims. If your office provides patients with oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea, you’ll often need to contact a patient’s medical insurance provider to get preauthorization and predetermination to ensure they can receive coverage for the expenses associated with their sleep apnea therapy in your office. The Brady Billing team is happy to answer all of the medical preauthorization and predetermination billing services for our dental offices, so you can place your focus where it belongs – on your patients.
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