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Hi I'm Becky Gerber owner and lead instructor here at Academy of dental practice careers as you know billing medically necessary dental procedures to a patient's medical insurance carrier is becoming a necessity in today's market here at APC we have designed a video that is intended to teach you how to fill out the current CMS 1500 medical claim form section by section we are using a simple sleep apnea case study as our example now before we get started it is our assumption that you already have the required documentation needed to proceed with submitting the claim first make sure to have your codebook this is the one I use the NDAs medical dental coding and fee guide sixth edition it is available at Med fees com if you prefer looking up codes online here is a valuable resource icd-10 data com and finally if you want to look up the average UCR fees for your zip code you can go to Fair health consumer org the software that I prefer to use for generating a medical claim form is from speedy soft you can find that at speedy soft Viacom I like it because it is reasonably priced and easy to use plus it integrates well with most medical clearinghouses now that we're ready let's get started for our simulated sleep apnea case study we are going to be using a patient named Willard P patient please remember this is for example only and we at a DPC highly recommend that you look up your own icd-10 and CPT codes Willard P patient came in with a chief complaint of fatigue headaches and dry mouth when waking up in the morning he had a sleep study done on January 15, 2016, and the results were negative the doctor did an assessment of the patient and advised the patient in order to correct the condition he would need a sleep apnea appliance at this point you at the front desk ask mister patient for his medical insurance identification card for the purposes of this video I have cut the current CMS 1500 medical claim form into three sections the first section is numbered 1 through 13 and then above the solid red line in the upper right corner we have the place for the name and address of the medical insurance carrier please notice that the third line is left blank and that is for a suite number if applicable box 1 is marked other because we are using PP O insurance boxes 2 3 & 5 are for the patient's name date of birth gender address and phone number box 1a is for the ID of the patient or the person that has the insurance and in this case it is the patient and that number is found on the medical insurance identification card box 4 is the name of the person with the insurance and box 6 is patient relationship to insured which is in this case self and then box 7 is the insurance address and phone number box 11 is for the group number or policy number and that again is found on the ID card and then box 11 an is for the date of birth of the person with the insurance and their gender and then box 11 C is for the insurance plans name and that is PERCO which happens to...