Periodontal claims can be frustrating for even the most veteran of insurance coordinators. Rachel Wall of Inspired Hygiene is here to teach us how the new classifications will impact patient care. She goes over:

• What is staging and grading?
• How do systemic issues like diabetes, heart disease and inflammation factor in a patient's stage?
• We talk about the answer for "is it once a perio, always a perio?" It's about risk.
• How to incorporate this information into your claims and conversations.

The new guidelines can be found here: https://www.perio.org/2017wwdc

Rachel's book Return on Hygiene is a necessary business book for any office that has a recare program (that's most of you!). Managers - this is required reading, in my opinion.

Find Rachel at www.InspiredHygiene.com and visit her Resource Page for complimentary downloads. 

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