Oral Surgery Billing & Medical Cross-Coding

Oral surgery billing isn't dental billing with bigger numbers. Implants, bone grafts, extractions, trauma, and jaw surgery routinely cross into medical insurance territory, and getting the coding, the payer order, and the prior authorization wrong is exactly how a fully covered procedure ends up as a denied claim or a surprise patient balance.

What's included

• Specialized surgical coding. Medical and dental cross-coding for oral and maxillofacial procedures — implants, bone grafts, extractions, trauma, and jaw surgery — coded to the payer and procedure, not a generic dental template.
• Prior authorizations. Securing pre-determinations and pre-authorizations from both medical and dental plans before treatment, so the practice and the patient know where they stand before surgery.
• Denial follow-up. Navigating the medical-vs-dental primary payor question and coordination of benefits rules that cause most oral surgery denials, with immediate follow-up when a claim comes back unpaid.

How it works

We work directly inside the practice management software you already use — Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve Dental, Dentrix Ascend, Cloud 9, or Practice-Web — so there's no new system to learn and no disruption to your surgical schedule. Onboarding typically takes 3 to 5 business days to set up system access and clearinghouse connections; after that, claim work begins immediately.

Why practices choose DCP for oral surgery

This is a specialization, not a side skill added to a general dental billing service — cross-coding and medical/dental primary payor determination are handled by billers who work oral surgery claims specifically. Everything runs month-to-month with no long-term contract, and posting is verified manually rather than auto-matched, which matters even more on the higher-dollar claims typical of surgical procedures.