CMC Milestones

November

• Closing date for submissions to be addressed during the next annual CMC meeting

March

• Annual CMC Meeting

April

• Notification of CMC decisions on action requests sent to submitter

4th Quarter

• Next edition of CDT Manual published

January 1st

• Effective date of a CDT version

January 1, 2024

For Example...

Five codes were submitted by the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine that had to do with diagnosis, testing and placement of appliances for sleep apnea:

• Sleep Apnea Test
• Dental Sleep Medicine Evaluation
• Screening For Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
• Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) Follow-Up Visit
• Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) Morning Repository Device

Three codes had to do with diagnosis and home testing kits provided by dentists and two codes had to do with appliances.

Four of the codes were approved by the committee with the one code voted down dealt with diagnosis and testing that was written in a way that the committee felt closely followed an already existing code and therefore was unnecessary. 

All of the changes, additions or deletions of codes that came out of this meeting will show up in 2024 ADA CDT beginning in January 2024.

Oklahoma Annual Meeting Highlight

SWSO President Dr. Joe Moon was visiting the Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Orthodontic Society (OOS). He was joined by OOS members; SWSO President-Elect Dr. Onur Kadioglu, Faculty Support Committee Chair Dr. Frans Currier and Oklahoma Delegate Dr. Kyle Shannon. They were able to update our Oklahoma members about the merger and answer questions. Dr. Moon’s visit was successful and productive one.