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• A patient was scheduled for D4341, but the hygienist decided that the patient did not have enough deposits to be considered a true quads patient. It ended up taking two appointments to do the cleaning and perio charting and the hygienist still wants to bill out as a D1110. I have never seen a prophy take two appointments to complete before. My question to you is should this remain a D1110 or should it be billed out as D4341 twice for left & right Quads? If no for both, what should it be billed out as? Thank you!

A patient was scheduled for D4341, but the hygienist decided that the patient did not have enough deposits to be considered a true quads patient. It ended up taking two appointments to do the cleaning and perio charting and the hygienist still wants to bill out as a D1110. I have never seen a prophy take two appointments to complete before. My question to you is should this remain a D1110 or should it be billed out as D4341 twice for left & right Quads? If no for both, what should it be billed out as? Thank you!