Dana Apuy is the Founder, CEO and Lead Coding and Billing specialist for Savvy Dental Consulting. For 20 years, Dana has understood the unique strategies and systems, for efficient insurance claim processing that, results in, increased revenue.  

Dana is a Certified Dental Coder and Billing Specialist. She is well versed with most Dental Practice Management systems and insurance management training for electronic e-claim submissions, coding without fraud, approved narratives, insurance processing-do's and don'ts, how to process and recover outstanding claims within 30-45 days, how to avoid audit and focus reviews performed quarterly by each insurance carrier. OSHA and HIPAA training, Medical cross-coding, Fraud and Abuse coaching. 

Dana creates revenue strategies by implementing efficient and compliant practice systems such as, compliant and efficient dental claims processing, CDT code training, and claims aging clean-up.  She is an expert with claim denials and appeals, identifying insurance coding and processing errors, understanding common errors with insurance adjustments, identifying additional CDT codes for procedures, increasing claim revenue.
Dana is an accomplished professional. She holds certification as a Registered Dental Assistant (RDA), through UCLA, CA. Certified Dental Coder, (CDC) and Certified Dental Claim Billing Specialist (CDBS) through the American Dental Coders Association (ADCA).

Dana sits on the Advisory and Editorial boards for (ADCA) she provides quarterly “open forum discussions” about coding, fraud and insurance compliance to providers and their staff.
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Dana collaborates with many established Dental Professionals and Directors of National Associations in the Insurance industry. Her goal is to share her vast dental insurance knowledge for expedited claim processing resulting in high profitability for the practice.

Dana continues to strive to provide excellent services and knowledge to the dental professionals of its industry.

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