My Practice My Business: The Clinical Business of Dentistry

The Sentence That Cost Dentistry a Fortune

Robert Thorup, DDS Season 8 Episode 23

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Have you ever stopped to think about how much damage a single sentence can do?

Not an entire law.

Not an insurance contract.

Not even a court decision.

Just...

one sentence.

A sentence so small that most dentists have probably read past it for decades without giving it a second thought.

Yet that one sentence has quietly shaped reimbursement, influenced insurance company behavior, altered clinical documentation, and, in our opinion, cost dentists across America hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Local anesthesia is usually considered part of..."

That sentence has appeared throughout the CDT Code for years.

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