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  2. Comparing Dental Benefits Included with Medicare Advantage ...

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    Dental care and health care coverage Dental care is especially important for seniors. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in five adults 65 or older have untreated tooth decay. Over ...

  3. Current Dental Terminology - Wikipedia

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    The 2012 edition of the Dental Claim Form includes fields for diagnosis codes and instructions covering the use of the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM coding systems. In addition to ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM there are other dental diagnostic coding systems under consideration, including SNODENT and EZCODES .

  4. Dental insurance - Wikipedia

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    Dental insurance companies divide benefits, services, or procedures into categories and refer to them with American Dental Association (ADA) 3-4 digit code. As an example, Preventive and Diagnostic procedures often include exams (ADA code 0120), x-rays (ADA code 0210), and basic cleanings or prophylaxis (ADA code 1110).

  5. FDI World Dental Federation notation - Wikipedia

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    FDI World Dental Federation notation (also "FDI notation" or "ISO 3950 notation") is the world's most commonly used dental notation (tooth numbering system). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is designated by the International Organization for Standardization as standard ISO 3950 "Dentistry — Designation system for teeth and areas of the oral cavity".

  6. Dental notation - Wikipedia

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    The FDI World Dental Federation notation ("FDI notation" or "ISO 3950" [1]) is widely used by dental professionals internationally to identify and describe a specific tooth. The FDI notation uses a two-digit numbering system in which the first digit represents a tooth's quadrant and the second digit represents the number of the tooth from the ...

  7. Essential health benefits - Wikipedia

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    The essential health benefits are a minimum federal standard and "states may require that qualified health plans sold in state health insurance exchanges also cover state-mandated benefits." [ 1 ] : 3 The act gives "considerable discretion" to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine, through regulation, what specific services ...

  8. Medical billing - Wikipedia

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    Step 3: Assigning Codes [4] This is where medical billing departs from medical coding. Medical coders are responsible for this step and they rely on two standardized coding systems to document and classify the services provided, which will eventually be put into a bill by medical billers.

  9. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) instructed CMS to adopt a standard coding systems for reporting medical transactions. The use of Level III codes was discontinued on December 31, 2003, in order to adhere to consistent coding standards.