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CDT COMPANION 2015 BEST SE LLE R N EW Your dental team is the first line of defense against claims rejection. Give them the tools they need for successful and efficient claims reimbursement with the CDT 2015 Companion: Help Guide and Training Manual. The Companion contains more than 150 coding questions and answers, 26 detailed coding exercises with solutions for every day dental procedures, and 15 quick quizzes. Other features include: • NEW! CDT Code to ICD Diagnosis Code Cross-Walk, information linking the codes of one system with codes of another • Full-color, illustrated chapter on implant services and how to code for them • Comprehensive explanation of CDT code components • HIPAA compliant 2012 dental claim form and completion instructions • Continuing education test worth 5 CE credits Used in tandem with the 2015 CDT codes, the Companion is ideal to update current staff on code changes or use as a training resource for new employees. Use it for staff meetings, quick training sessions, or as a reference guide to help your team code with skill and confidence. MEMBER RETAIL J445 Book, 242 pages $49.95 $74.95 J445D e-Book $39.95 $59.95 J445B Print and e-Book Bundle $59.95 $84.95 "The illustrated implant chapter is the best part." – Dr. Tasha Straight CDT 2015 Companion: Help Guide and Training Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction to the CDT Code 2 CDT 2015—Notable Additions & Revisions 3 Coding Exercises—Day-to-Day Code Use 4 150+ Questions and Answers on the CDT Code, Claim From, and Adjudication 5 Implant Services—An In-Depth Look 6 Tooth Numbering and Areas of the Oral Cavity 7 ADA Dental Claim Form Completion Instructions 8 CDT Code to ICD (Diagnosis Code) Cross-Walk 9 Claims for Dental Services Filled with Patient's Medical Benefit Plan 10 Claim Rejection—Payer Misuse of the CDT Code or Something Else? 11 Alphabetical Index—Exercises/Q & A 12 Continuing Education Examination Coding Exercises – Day-to-Day CDT Code Use 3 Radiographs – What constitutes a full mouth series? Here are three radiographic scenarios: How would you code them? 1. Betty is missing all second and third molars. The office takes ten periapical x-rays: three upper anterior, three lower anterior and one posterior in each quadrant. _________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Barbara has all her teeth and has impacted partially erupted third molars. The office takes a panoramic x-ray and four posterior bitewings. ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Becky has a maxillary full denture and fourteen mandibular teeth. The office takes four periapicals of the upper edentulous ridge, seven periapicals of the lower arch and four posterior bitewings. ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Coding Exercise #3 DENTAL CODING MADE SIMPLE: RESOURCE GUIDE AND TRAINING MANUAL © 2014 American Dental Association 23 © 2014 American Dental Association 131 DENTAL CODING MADE SIMPLE: RESOURCE GUIDE AND TRAINING MANUAL Connecting Bar This illustration shows an abutment supported overdenture that utilizes a connecting bar. Connecting bars are retentive in nature, and can be utilized with rigid as well as resilient prosthetics. Hader® and Dolder® bar are two types of connecting bars. Connecting bars can be designed to use other types of retentive mechanisms, such as semi precision attachments. Abutment supported connecting bars should be reported as: D6055 connecting bar – implant supported or abutment supported Utilized to stabilize and anchor a prosthesis. The entire connecting bar is reported as a single unit; however, an abutment would be documented for each implant that supports the connecting bar. Although the nomenclature says the connecting bar is "implant supported" the descriptor specifies that this procedure requires the use of abutments. * "transmucosal" refers to the characteristic that these abutments connect the submucosal implant body to the supramucosal connecting bar. In fact, all abutments in the CDT Code (D6056 & D6057) are transmucosal. It is also possible to construct a connecting bar that attaches directly to the implant bodies, but there are no specific procedure codes for such a device. In such cases it is necessary to document the bar using the code for unspecified implant procedures, D6199, which requires the inclusion of a narrative description. Implant/abutment supported removable denture D6110 Implant D6010 Connecting bar D6055 Prefabricated abutment D6056 Image courtesy of Zimmer Dental Implant Services – An In-Depth Look 5 O R D E R O N L I N E : A D A C ATA L O G . O R G 67 J445