CDT-2005 - Are You Ready?
The American Dental Association's new Current Dental Terminology (CDT-2005) became effective 1/1/2005. Check this posting for explanations of codes and who this code set applies to. Specific questions can be emailed to us by CLICKING HERE and will be answered in this forum for the rest of the members.
posted by Dr J Webb @ 4:07 PM
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7 Comments:
Does everyone have to use these codes?
GR-SD
In order to be HIPAA compliant, every office that submits their claims electronically (EDI)or has a service that submits electronically, must use the current code set which, as of 1/1/05 is CDT-2005.
What if I submit only paper claims?
You are not restricted to CDT-2005. But check with the various carriers you submit claims to and make sure they are still accepting claims containing older codes. If not, your claims will probably be returned unpaid for recoding
Dental consultants, dental consulting, dentists can obtain copies of CDT-2005 by contacting their state dental association or the ADA at www.ada.org.
So, what's new with the codes? I know it took some time to adapt to the previous codes.
GR-AZ
Thee a lot of diagnostic codes but from a clinical point of view, I think two of the most valuable give a definite procedure code for flexible (Flexite)partials.
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