Generic billers run dental claims the same way they run cardiology. Dental practices write off six figures a year in denied claims and lost cross-coding revenue. ClaimMax runs dental billing as its own discipline with dental-trained coders and dental-specific payer knowledge.
AAPC-certified coders trained on CDT, CPT, and dental-medical cross-coding handle your claims. Eligibility checked before every appointment. Predetermination tracked across PPO payers. Denials worked within 48 hours. Every dental specialty runs the Claims-Integrity Dental Pipeline from chair to cash.
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Dental billing services break into eight operational modules. Each module runs as a discrete workflow with its own dental-trained team. Your practice gets all eight as one integrated engagement, or any subset that fits your in-house team’s gaps. No bundled minimums.
Dental insurance verification services run 48 to 72 hours before every appointment. PPO benefits, deductible status, frequency limits, and waiting periods confirmed before the patient sits in the chair.
Predeterminations submitted for crowns, implants, ortho, and major procedures. Prior auth tracking for medical cross-coded procedures. Approvals locked before scheduling, not chased after denial.
AAPC-certified coders apply CDT codes against documentation. D-code sequencing for multi-procedure visits. Modifier discipline for medically necessary dental procedures. Documentation queries route to providers before claims submit.
PPO fee schedules loaded per payer. Annual contract reviews flag underpriced contracts. Network participation reviewed against practice payer mix. Renegotiation candidates identified by underpayment volume.
Claims scrubbed against payer rules, fee schedule alignment, and frequency limits before submission. Daily submission, not weekly. Multi-NPI submission for group practices with shared tax IDs handled per cycle without cross-NPI errors.
Every denial worked within 48 hours by dental-matched billers. Appeals drafted with predetermination documentation. Aged AR worked by aging bucket and payer queue, not in random order.
ERA 835 posting with line-level write-off review. Underpayment flagged when posted amount misses contracted fee schedule. Patient ledger reconciled the same day insurance posts.
Monthly reports show days in AR, denial rate by payer, first-pass clean claim rate, and net collection rate. Underpayment recovery broken out by procedure code and PPO contract.
Every denied claim ClaimMax handles moves through five distinct workflow stages. Each stage has a defined SLA, defined ownership, and defined deliverable. The work isn’t generic appeals filing. The work is structured: triage within 24 hours, construct payer-specific appeals, escalate through multi-level pathways, coordinate clinical peer reviews, and track recovery continuously per HFMA root-cause analysis standards.
CAQH profile loaded. PPO enrollment with Delta Dental, Aetna, Cigna, MetLife, UnitedHealthcare, Guardian, and Humana initiated based on your practice's payer strategy. Re-credentialing cycles tracked. No credentialing gaps disrupt billing once you go live.
Eligibility verified 48 to 72 hours before every appointment. Benefits breakdown captured: deductible, annual maximum, frequency limits, missing tooth clauses, waiting periods. Patient financial responsibility communicated before the chair, not after the claim.
Predeterminations submitted for crowns, bridges, implants, orthodontics, and oral surgery. Medical prior auth tracked for cross-coded procedures. Approval status logged in your PMS. Treatment plans don't get scheduled without insurance certainty.
AAPC-certified coders apply CDT codes for dental work and CPT codes for medically billable dental procedures. Cross-coding logic applied where insurance overlaps. Documentation queries route to providers within 24 hours for clean claims out.
Claims scrubbed against payer-specific rules before submission. Fee schedule alignment checked. Frequency limits validated. Same-day procedure pairs verified against payer bundling. Multi-NPI submission for group practices with shared tax IDs handled per cycle.
Every denial worked within 48 hours by dental-matched billers. Denial root-causes coded by payer for prevention. Appeals drafted with predetermination, clinical notes, and X-rays attached. Payer-pattern denial trends fed back to front-end workflows.
ERA 835 posting with same-day reconciliation. Patient balances routed for statement workflows. Monthly reports show days in AR, denial rate, first-pass clean claim rate, net collection rate, and underpayment recovery broken out by procedure code and PPO contract.
Credentialing delays cost dental practices unbilled production for every week a provider waits. ClaimMax dental credentialing services handle CAQH maintenance, PPO network enrollment, and re-credentialing cycles so new providers bill from day one and existing providers never fall out of network.
CAQH profile loaded, verified, and re-attested every 120 days. Documents kept current: license, DEA, malpractice, W-9, hospital privileges where applicable. Delta Dental credentialing pulls from CAQH without manual re-entry. Credentialing applications process in less time when CAQH stays clean.
Network applications submitted to Delta Dental, Aetna, Cigna, MetLife, UnitedHealthcare Dental, Guardian, Humana, Principal, and regional Blue Cross plans. Applications tracked weekly. Effective dates locked. Contract rates reviewed before signature so you don’t enroll in underpriced networks by mistake.
Primary source verification handled per NCQA credentialing standards. State board license verified. DEA registration confirmed. Education and residency verified. Malpractice history reviewed. Hospital privileges documented where applicable. Credentialing files audit-ready for any payer review.
Re-credentialing cycles tracked across all enrolled payers. Renewal applications submitted 90 days before expiration. Contract renewal reviews flag underpriced contracts before automatic renewal. Underperforming networks identified for non-renewal so your payer mix improves with each cycle.
Different dental specialties have different billing mechanics. Pediatric billing differs from orthodontics. Oral surgery cross-codes to medical. Each specialty assigned to dental coders who’ve worked that specialty before, not generalists learning on your claims.
Preventive, restorative, and basic operative procedures. PPO fee schedule alignment, predetermination workflows, and patient cost estimates per visit.
Stainless steel crowns, pulpotomies, fluoride application, and sealants. Medicaid CHIP claims, EPSDT documentation, and frequency limits tracked per child.
Banding fee billing, monthly orthodontic adjustment claims, and orthodontic insurance lifetime maximums tracked. Phase I and Phase II treatment plans coded against payer rules.
Root canal therapy by tooth and canal count. Apicoectomies, retreatments, and pulpotomies coded against payer frequency limits and pre-existing condition exclusions.
Scaling and root planing by quadrant. Periodontal maintenance frequency tracking. Surgical periodontal procedures coded against medical necessity documentation requirements.
Crowns, bridges, dentures, and partials. Lab fee coordination, predetermination for major work, and missing tooth clause handling per payer contract.
CDT and CPT dual coding for extractions, implants, biopsies, and trauma. Medical insurance cross-coding for medically necessary surgical procedures.
Implant placement, abutment, and crown billing across stages. Medical cross-coding for accident-related implants. Bone graft and sinus lift coding handled per claim.
Cash-pay aesthetic procedures plus insurance-billable medically necessary work. Veneers, bonding, and whitening tracked outside insurance flow when applicable.
Oral appliances for sleep apnea billed to medical insurance with HCPCS E0486. Polysomnography documentation, prior authorization, and DME-style billing workflows handled per claim.
Most companies that outsource dental billing hire generalists and assign them whichever practice walks in. ClaimMax operates on a different model. Dental knowledge is a workflow standard, not a marketing claim. The biller working your dental practice has worked dental claims before, not as a side rotation.
Every coder is AAPC-certified and assigned only to dental specialties they've worked. Pediatric coders work pediatric. Oral surgery coders work oral surgery. Orthodontic coders work orthodontics. Generalist assignment to unfamiliar dental specialties is blocked by engagement design.
Dental coders trained on both CDT and CPT code sets. Cross-coding logic applied for medically necessary dental procedures. Oral surgery, TMJ, sleep apnea, and trauma claims submitted to medical insurance when documentation supports it. Practices recover revenue most dental billers miss.
Your contracted PPO fee schedules are loaded before claims submit. Underpayment thresholds applied per payer per procedure. Delta Dental rates, Aetna rates, Cigna rates, and MetLife rates each carry their own variance detection. Underpaid claims get flagged and worked.
Monthly performance reports broken down by dental specialty, payer, and provider. Days in AR by specialty. Denial rate by payer. Net collection rate by procedure category. Underpayment recovery by PPO contract. Practice administrators see where revenue stands and what's improving.
BAA signed before any practice management system access. SOC 2 Type II audited environment. PHI encrypted at rest and in transit. Privacy Rule and Security Rule training completed before account access. HITECH audit trails maintained across every claim worked.
Every dental engagement is assigned a senior account manager with dental practice experience. One person accountable for credentialing, claim submission, denial management, and reporting. One number to call when something needs to move across the engagement.
Dental billing handles PHI on every patient encounter. Most billing companies treat compliance as a checkbox they answer when asked. ClaimMax engineers HIPAA, SOC 2, HITECH, and OIG alignment into every dental workflow before the first claim submits. Five compliance pillars run daily.
Privacy Rule and Security Rule training completed before any account access. PHI encrypted at rest and in transit using TLS 1.2 or higher. Audit logging runs without gaps. Quarterly incident-response testing. Every dental engagement runs under the same HIPAA-by-design discipline.
A BAA is signed before any dental billing data access begins. All HHS-required provisions included: breach notification, subcontractor accountability, and termination protocols. Our legal team reviews the template against your counsel before contract signing, not after an incident.
All dental billing infrastructure runs in a SOC 2 Type II audited environment. Annual third-party security audits. Access-control monitoring runs without gaps. Encryption at rest and in transit. Mandatory MFA for every user across every dental team. Four-hour incident response SLA.
HITECH Act requirements covered for breach notification, electronic PHI protection, and audit-trail maintenance per dental engagement. Every coding decision, claim submission, payment posting, and denial action carries an audit trail. Audit-ready documentation per claim across every dental specialty.
Dental billing depth means nothing if it can’t run inside your existing practice management system. ClaimMax integrates with the PMS and clearinghouse infrastructure your practice already uses. No platform migration required, no separate vendor login, no parallel system to maintain.
Dental billing covers the workflow from patient eligibility verification through claim submission, denial management, payment posting, and reporting. It includes CDT coding for dental insurance and CPT coding for medically necessary dental procedures billed to medical insurance.
Dental billing starts when a patient schedules a visit. Eligibility gets verified. Claims get coded with CDT or CPT codes. Predetermination submits for major work. Claims submit electronically. Payments post via ERA. Denials get appealed. Patient statements go out for balances.
Dental billing uses CDT codes, predetermination workflows, multiple PPO fee schedules per provider, and frequency-limit tracking unique to dental. Medical billing uses CPT and ICD-10 codes, prior authorization workflows, and contracted rates per payer. Cross-coding bridges both for medically necessary dental procedures.
ClaimMax handles dental billing across 10 specialties: general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, implant dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, and dental sleep medicine. Each specialty gets dental-matched coders, not generalists.
Dental balance billing is when a practice bills the patient for the difference between billed charges and contracted PPO rates. Most PPO contracts prohibit balance billing for covered services. ClaimMax tracks balance billing rules per payer to avoid contract violations.
A dental biller manages the revenue cycle for dental practices. They verify insurance, submit claims, post payments, work denials, and reconcile patient balances. Specialty-matched dental billers know CDT coding, PPO fee schedules, and dental insurance frequency rules in depth.
Dental billing outsourcing reduces overhead, eliminates billing turnover costs, and gives practices access to specialty-matched coders without hiring them in-house. Remote dental billing improves cash flow with cleaner first-pass submission. Denial recovery improves net collections. Front desk staff focus on patients instead of insurance follow-up.
In-house billing works when the practice has billing depth, technology infrastructure, and time to manage staff turnover. Outsourcing wins when specialty depth, cross-coding expertise, or denial recovery capacity matters more than control. Most practices over five providers benefit from outsourced billing.
Look at specialty match, CDT and CPT cross-coding capability, PPO contract knowledge, reporting transparency, HIPAA compliance posture, and account manager accessibility. Ask about claim turnaround, denial follow-up SLAs, and reporting cadence. Skip vendors who can’t show specialty-matched team assignments.
Missed predeterminations on major work. Incorrect CDT code sequencing on multi-procedure visits. Failure to verify benefits before treatment. Aged AR left unworked past timely filing limits. Cross-codeable procedures billed only to dental when medical would cover them.
Verify eligibility 48 to 72 hours before every appointment. Submit predeterminations for major work. Code without errors on first submission. Work denials within 48 hours. Reconcile the patient ledger same day insurance posts. Run monthly reports by payer and procedure category.
Stop letting generalist billers learn dental codes on your claims. Stop watching predetermination opportunities disappear because nobody submitted them. Stop accepting cross-codeable procedures billed only to dental when medical insurance would cover them. Stop paying for billing depth your current vendor isn’t delivering.
Start with AAPC-certified dental coders running the Claims-Integrity Dental Pipeline across every specialty your practice bills. CDT plus CPT cross-coding standard. PPO fee schedule knowledge loaded. Specialty-level reporting transparent. Every claim worked to maximize claim collection from chair to cash.
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