The Dental Billing Podcast
Episode 41: Billing Entity VS. Treating Dentist and What Does Locum Tenens Have to Do With it?
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What it is about
Do you know what Locum Tenens is and how it applies to us as billers? This is when we hire a temporary doctor to cover the practice for a few days or weeks. Maybe our owner is going on vacation or had an emergency and needs time off but we do not want to stop production. Don't do what most offices do and bill with the owner as the treating dentist in box 53 on the claim form! That is bonafide FRAUD. In this week's…
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