Practice Management

The effectiveness of the team will be reflected in the effectiveness of treatment by James D. Geyer, MD; Paul R. Carney, MD; and Monica M. Henderson, RN, RPSGT Reproduced in […]

If you’ve been on the fence about increasing the presence of Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in your practice and billing Medicare, consider this; Medicare is the largest health insurer in the US. By 2020, 64 million individuals will have Medicare. Medicare reimburses for OAT when the facility has a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) supplier license. Not only does being a Medicare DME supplier help patients who suffer from this potentially life-threatening condition, but Medicare billing increases your OSA patient pool significantly. A recent Nierman Practice Management (NPM) client survey revealed that well over 70 percent of NPM Dental Sleep Medicine (DSM) practices are properly enrolled to bill Medicare for oral appliances for OSA. In fact, our most successful dental sleep practices are enrolled to do so.

The practice of sleep medicine and dental sleep medicine is rapidly changing. The Affordable Health Care Act has forced changes in medicine that have consequences for dental sleep medicine. Exploring what “was” and what “is” can be beneficial to the success of a dental sleep practice. For those that can adapt, dental sleep medicine can and will flourish in the future.

by Glennine Varga, AAS, RDA, CTA Let’s face it – it’s not always fun and games when wearing oral appliances to improve sleep breathing but on the other hand there

Over the past several years billing sleep appliances for dental practices, I’ve had the opportunity to witness many successes and failures. Success can be achieved through a process of these steps:

Marketing for a Dental Sleep Medicine practice, as we all know, is at a right angle to marketing for a general dentistry practice. While the marketing vehicles may be the

Graduation photos and thank-you cards covered the cork board next to the receptionist desk. There was a large sliding window behind the check-in clipboard. Once your name was called you