Tip Tuesday: Medical Billing in the Dental Sleep Practice
What is preventing you from helping your patients faster and more efficiently? Don’t let record uploads slow down your practice. Finding it difficult to upload records? Are you confused by what you need?
Medical Billing in the Dental Sleep Practice: Myths and Obstacles to Payment
Dentists throughout the U.S. have avoided using medical billing at their practices. However, 88 percent of dentists are worried about their patients’ ability to pay for services. And while Americans are required to have medical insurance, more than 130 million of them lack dental coverage. It’s no wonder that many people have put off dental care—so much so that the CDC estimates that the U.S. loses $6 billion in productivity because of oral health issues.
So, why aren’t all dentists using medical billing at their practice to help with payment? Perhaps the greatest obstacle to dentists in medical billing is a lack of knowledge. There are many myths and misconceptions about medical billing. While many are easily avoided, they may prevent dentists from implementing medical billing in their practices and from succeeding with medical reimbursements for their services. Read our new blog to explore six of the most common myths that have prevented dental practices from diving into medical billing.
Want to learn more? Dr. Farrugia will be teaching a two-day medical billing course/workshop at TVI on August 5 and 6, 2022. For more information and registration, visit www.cezoom.com/registration/?conf=1230
Dr. Chris Farrugia,
DDS, DABSB
DDS, DABSB
Dr. Farrugia practices TMD and dental sleep medicine in Destin, Florida. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Sleep and Breathing, a published author, and a recognized expert on medical billing.
Amazing Add-On Features in AireO2
Did you know that there are incredible add-on features in AireO2 that can be integrated with everyday use in your offices to help with efficiency and ease of use? We are bringing these additional items conveniently to you— all in one place! How amazing is that? Here are a few of our favorites:
Appointment Reminders
Ensure that patients always know when they have a scheduled appointment with set time intervals for SMS (text) messages to go out!
Integrated Fax
AireO2 has partnered with SFax to get your faxes where they need to go with the content you want included. This means you can send faxes directly from your AireO2 database!
Telemedicine
There’s no need to sign up for another system to communicate with your patients while staying within HIPPA guidelines. You can use blueTeleMed to communicate directly with them!
Next Stops: New Orleans and Raleigh, NC!
Here’s why you need to attend the Airway Integration Tour!
- Earn CE credits
- Participate in team-building exercises
- Improve your patient experience
- Increase case acceptance
- Provide a better understanding of each person’s role, responsibility, and importance
- Reduce patient visits with increased productivity
- Network with other VIPs
Don’t take it from us! Take it from our attendees from Sacramento!
We are visiting 25 cities across the US!
Join us and bring your team for an informative and team-building training event that will help you transform your practice! Click the link below for a location near you.
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At The Vivos Institute, we strive to provide all VIPS and their teams with top-of-the-line education. Your feedback is extremely important and helps us cater our training to your needs. Please fill out the survey below to help us get a better understanding of what additional training you would like to see.
AIS Updates: How to create a patient in VivosAire
Creating a Patient in Aire can seem difficult. We have provided a short video to walk you through this process. This video is also located in your MyAbsorb. If you need additional assistance reach out to our team at the Help Desk.
Best Practices:
1. Have all your records in one location when you are ready to upload
2. Review which records are required to submit a case
Join Us for Invaluable In-Person Training at the Vivos Institute!
Our Second Vivos Captain Graduation Team
Come and learn how to be the driver of integration in a practice.
Sessions 1–3 Practical
Our Live Practical Course is available to all Vivos VIPs who have completed Sessions 1–3 virtually. This is a hands-on course where you will review everything learned from Sessions 1–3, go through the record process as a patient, and take the records as the doctor. You will also get hands-on training with Vivos guides and the DNA/mRNA appliances.
Check out exciting upcoming events and webinars on our Thursday email from The Vivos Institute!
New Webinars Coming This Week!
Integrative Dentistry
June 11th, 2022
Have you noticed that increasing numbers of our patients use natural products, alternative medicine therapies, essential oils, and herbs to counteract health issues? Have you noticed common systemic health issues that connect with sleep and that the typical “pill for an ill ” dogma in medicine involves drug regimens that often carry significant side effects?
This hands-on workshop-hosted and taught by Dr. Amv Dayries will help you support your patients and generate income opportunities for your increased practice growth.
Hygiene Presents: Being Prepared In Your Operatory
June 9th 2022
This webinar was designed with the hygienist’s operatory in mind. We will review the literature to be prepared within your operatory (quick reference guides), the patient presentation kit, and successful dialogue and verbiage.
This course will provide insight on how to review, interpret, and understand the AI report and key elements that are crucial to treatment planning a case successfully understand:
- The importance of a dental diagnosis when doing sleep dentistry
- How to review each slide of the AI report
- Comprehensive dentistry that may include other health care professionals
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