Coding references
Dentistry: the codes and the rules.
Three tables for a dental practice, each one a coder can check against the 2025 CMS and ICD-10-CM files, and the notes that come up every week.
The tables.
The notes a coder repeats.
- Dental claims use CDT codes on the ADA claim form; ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are required by many plans and by every medical plan a dental office bills.
- CDT codes carry no CMS work RVU and no global period; the fee schedule is the plan's.
- Medical necessity claims (trauma, biopsy, TMJ, sleep appliances) go to the medical plan with CPT codes and a medical diagnosis.
Other specialties.
A receptionist that knows dental calls.
Screening forms your clinicians approve, the on-call paged with answers, and every call booked or handed back as a task.