Dental coding ICD-10 CM – Time to prepare your practice now! - DentistryIQ
November 17, 2014
By Terri Bradley
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. Hear that? It's the sound of time passing. On October 1, 2015, the United States will implement a new, updated diagnosis code set. ICD-10 CM (International Classification of Disease, Volume 10) will become the new code set for all medical claims submitted with a date of service after October 1, 2015.
You may be thinking, I don’t submit medical claims, so I don’t have to know about this. As a dental office you may not submit medical claims often, but I can guarantee you, there will be times when it will benefit both you and your patients if you submit some services to medical carriers. For example, did you know that many patients have coverage for dental-related trauma under their medical plans? If you can get some claims paid under a medical plan rather than using dental benefits, you may be saving patients money and saving their benefits so they can use those benefits for other procedures in your practice.
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