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Wiki Dental/Medicine Diagnosis

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I'm trying to find a "medical" diagnosis for a completely impacted tooth, which would normally be coded as 520.6. The insurance won't accept this dx code or any other dental code. Is there any medical code that would be acceptable?

Thanks for any help!:confused:
 
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Lets say the pt comes in with dental pain, and the dx is 523.30 or 523.00 the provider did not document anything other than dental pain. No jaw pain, no facial pain. Nothing. Can we use modifier da on an e/m code? Is there anyway to get this visit covered?
 
Modifier DA is for Oral health assessment by a licensed health professional other than a dentist.

Was an oral assessment performed? If not I would not ad the modifier DA.
 
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