Okay, dental billing friendos: You took 4 bitewings and six PA X-rays, billed them correctly, and still got denied because insurance saw it and went, ‘oh hey, process those bad boys as an FMX.’

We've all seen it before - that math ain't mathing, yet that's what happens.

Because if you're not paying attention to how those images are billed, bundled, processed, and frequency-limited, you could be accidentally triggering denials, flirting with write-offs, and surprise patient balances—just for trying to get clear, diagnostic pictures! How dare you!

In this episode of The Truth Decay Podcast, Sara Baker and LaRae McMullen unpack the (potentially) messy issue of dental X-ray billing: what makes an FMX an FMX, when bitewings and PAs get bundled (whether you like it or not), and how a few smart tweaks to your billing  ...