I found the letter by Dr. Kenneth Bolin ("Fraud The Old-Fashioned Way") in the March issue very important. It even raises a legal matter. In the third column, he refers to "undertrained employees at under-staffed insurance companies" making decisions in reference to dental radiographs.
It is my opinion that no radiograph should be sent to an insurance company per se. If requested, the radiograph must be sent to the dentist-dental consultant personally.
It is against the law for anyone except a dentist or physician to diagnose dental radiographs. The ADA passed a resolution a number of years ago stating that names of dentist-dental consultants cannot be kept secret.
In our practice, we do not send radiographs unless they are requested. Then they are sent only to the dentist-dental consultant of the insurance company if he or she exists! We have fewer than five requests per year. Congratulations on a fine article.
