Brady Billing Blog
4 Tips for Growing Your Dental Sleep Medicine Practice
November 7, 2017
If you’re just getting started offering sleep apnea treatment in your dental office, you may want to consider putting a little extra effort into separating yourself from the other dentists offering oral appliance therapy in your area. A few simple steps could help you beef up the profitability of your new service.
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Medical Billing for Sleep Apnea Appliances
October 19, 2017
For the most part, dentists don’t have to deal with medical billing. Rather than struggling with medical billing for sleep apnea appliances, consider trusting the Brady Billing team with all of your medical billing. This ensures your patients will get the maximum benefits they need and keep sleep apnea appliances within any budget. Keep reading to learn more about how the Brady Billing team can help you process and file medical insurance claims, so you can concentrate on the most important part of your practice – the patients.
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Can Any Dentist File Medical Insurance Claims?
September 15, 2017
If the dentist is performing a treatment that is not necessarily just affecting the smile or oral health, medical insurance coverage may be open to the patient. In these cases, a dentist can file medical insurance claims. Some dentists don’t know that this option is open to them, but in many situations, it’s important to understand the way medical insurance coverage can help make advanced treatments more affordable for your patients. Taking time to explore potential medical insurance coverage in addition to maximizing dental benefits can truly set a dental practice apart from the competition.
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Your Secret to Easy Dental Medical Billing
August 15, 2017
Your practice has grown so much over the past few years since you’ve started treating patients for obstructive sleep apnea, and you’re just happy that you’re able to help more people than ever. Of course, progress always has drawbacks. As you know, OSA treatments are typically covered by medical insurance rather than dental, and with that comes an entirely different billing process. Dental medical billing is as time consuming as it is essential, and you just wish there was a simpler way to do it so your team didn’t have to spend half their day on the phone helping a single patient.
Fortunately, more and more dentists have discovered a way to do just that, and today, we’re going to share it with you. (more…)
How to Handle Fee Negotiation for Dental Medical Billing
August 8, 2017
Fee negotiation. If you’re a dentist who regularly treats people for sleep apnea, then you’re all too familiar with this process, or rather, your front desk team is. When it comes to dental medical billing, you want your practice AND your patients to get the absolute most that they can from their medical insurance, but companies sure don’t make it easy. It’s almost impossible to just call them up on the phone, and even if you do get a hold of someone, your only reward is negotiating money when you’d rather be helping patients.
Fortunately, there are ways to streamline this process so everyone can get exactly what they want: you’ll be fairly compensated for your services, your patients will save on a treatment they need, and your team won’t have to spend half the day on the phone to make it happen. (more…)
How To Simplify Your Dental Medical Billing
July 16, 2017
Over the past few years, you’ve started treating a large amount of patients for obstructive sleep apnea, and while this might seem like a great thing for your practice on the surface, you know it can cause quite a headache. Your staff gets tied up for hours on the phone filing medical insurance claims for oral appliances, and they’re only able to handle a few patients a day at this rate. Wouldn’t you like to simplify this process so everyone in your office can just concentrate on helping people rather than have to deal with medical insurance? At Brady Billing, our sole job is to make dental medical billing easier for you, and here are the 3 main ways we do it.
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Gap Exception with Sleep Apnea Insurance Billing for Dentist
June 28, 2017
Now, more and more dental practices are choosing to offer treatment for sleep apnea due to the use of an oral appliance. However, this does create a certain set of challenges as the patient’s medical coverage must be billed instead of their dental. With sleep apnea insurance billing for dentist treatments, one area you may have difficulty with is a gap exception. At Brady Billing, we understand the process is a bit confusing. We will help shed some light on the insurance waiver.
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Secondary and Supplemental Insurance Medical Billing for Dentist
June 15, 2017
As a dentist who offers treatment for sleep apnea, you provide a great service for those living with the sleep disorder. However, it does come with a certain set of challenges because you must bill the patient’s medical insurance instead of using their dental coverage. When a patient has a secondary or supplemental insurance, this further complicates medical billing for dentist. To help simplify the process, Brady Billing will help you understand the difference between the two insurances.
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Join Brady Billing with Training for Sleep Apnea Insurance Billing for Dentists
May 19, 2017
With at least 18 million Americans suffering from sleep apnea, a disorder that causes pauses in breathing, dentists are becoming an invaluable asset to treating the condition. Now, many patients are choosing to treat the sleep disorder with an oral appliance, which is only available from a dentist. While it is an excellent opportunity for you to provide patients with a treatment, it does cause a certain challenge when billing for reimbursement. You must bill the patient’s medical insurance, not their dental insurance. This creates quite the challenge for sleep apnea insurance billing for dentists. Now, you can simplify the process with Brady Billing’s upcoming medical billing and training for dentists.
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Why You Need Pre-Authorizations for Billing Medical Insurance for Dentist
April 19, 2017
Now, more dentists are offering treatments for certain medical conditions, like sleep apnea. While this offers a great service to the community and helps build your practice, it does come with a set of challenges. When treating medical conditions, you have to bill the patient’s medical insurance, not their dental insurance. As a result, it can lead to errors that could cause issues with the reimbursement process. When billing medical insurances for dentist practices, you need pre-authorizations. With insurance pre-determinations, you will ensure a procedure is covered under the patient’s insurance prior to offering the treatment.
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