ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

You Be the Coder:

Who Can Perform Dental Work?

Question: Thank you for your article last month about dental visits in the ED. There is no emergency dental clinic in our town so we see a lot of patients with tooth pain. We have aspirated fluid from abscesses and done pain management, but we haven’t done much else to help these patients. How do we know which dental services [...]
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