How Is Dental Billing Different From Medical Billing?

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Dental billing and medical billing may look similar from the outside. Both involve patient registration, insurance verification, coding, claim submission, payment posting, denials, accounts receivable, and collections. But the similarities largely stop at the high-level workflow. The underlying billing environments are different. Dental practices work with CDT procedure codes, dental benefit plans, tooth numbers, tooth […]