What is Temporomandibular Disorder or Temporomandibular Joint Disorder?
100
The modifier for custom made oral appliances for OSA (non-medicare)
What is NU?
100
CPT codes 99211-99215
What are established patient Evaluation & Management (E&M) codes (a.k.a. office visit codes)?
100
The name of the medical claim form
What is CMS 1500?
100
The letters you can generate to medical insurers, other healthcare professionals, etc that summarize your patient questionnaire and exam into a SOAP note format
What are narrative reports?
200
The code commonly used for TMD appliances that was retired June 30, 2015
What is S8262?
200
HCPCS code for pre-fabricated oral appliances
What is E0485?
200
CPT codes 99201-99205
What are new patient Evaluation & Management (E&M) codes (a.k.a. office visit codes)?
200
The current version of diagnosis codes
What is ICD-10?
200
The DentalWriter mascot
What is a duck?
300
The 4 categories that TMD codes are organized in for ICD-10
What is left, right, bilateral and unspecified?
300
This sleep screening questionnaire establishes excessive daytime sleepiness with a score of 10 or above
What is the Epworth Sleepiness Scale?
300
CPT code 70355
What is an orthopantogram (a.k.a panorex x-ray)?
300
CPT
What is Current Procedural Terminology?
300
The year Nierman Practice Management began
What is 1988?
400
These types of policies commonly exclude coverage for TMD treatment
What are HMO policies?
400
One of these comorbidities does not establish medical necessity for an oral appliance: Depression, Diabetes, Hypertension, History of Stroke, Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
What is diabetes?
400
Place of service 12
What is home?
400
ICD
What is International Classification of Diseases?
400
The DW four step process
What is patient questionnaire, exam, recipients (narratives), & claim form(s)?
500
Commonly, these 2 radiology services are only considered medically necessary for TMD for anticipated surgical management
What are CT scans and MRI's?
500
The AHI from the sleep study report for a patient who slept for 5 hours, and had 80 apneas & 20 hypopneas.
What is 20?
500
Box 33 of the medical claim form
What is billing provider information?
500
This organization creates and manages the list of appliances & their manufacturers that are approved for Medicare
What is PDAC (Pricing, Data Analysis and Coding)?
500
Over 200 letter templates that can be used for items such as informed consent, financial consent, benefit verifications, gap requests, etc.