Please see guidance from Dr. Reeve below:
We have 3 main treatment codes for adult dental exams.
1. 01201 - comprehensive tx plan - new patient exam or when a recall exam has not been completed within the last 24 mos
2. 01202 - recall exam - exam for patients of record - every 12 mos but no greater than 23 mos otherwise it should be coded as 01201
3. 01202U - recall exam no charge. Sometimes patients will have a comprehensive exam or recall exam completed in Term 2 of one academic year and then they are assigned to a different dental student in Term 1 of the next academic year. In this type
of situation the new student must update the treatment plan and because the exam has already been done within a 12mos period then we do a recall exam no charge.
All exams procedure codes are entered at the time the exam is completed and are charged accordingly.