2025 Catalog: All Courses

The IHS mission is a responsibility to provide comprehensive healthcare: “to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level.” This course presents the ADA CDT 2025 code updates including 10 new codes; 8 revisions; and 2 deletions; Recommendations for CDT to ICD-10 code ‘linking’ and review of current “Conditions” codes. Also reviewed are the still active IHS Tracking codes and recommendations for appropriate use of multiple common CDT codes. This presentation will also touch on balancing coding for Productivity, Efficiency and Effectiveness in the unique scenario of the Indian Health Service.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1.   Select the most appropriate ADA CDT Exam code to use for various types of dental examination scenarios
2.   Explain how to link CDT codes to ICD-10 codes and create a ‘short list’ of alternate ICD-10 codes.
3.   Understand the relationship between ‘coding’ Productivity, Effectiveness and Efficiency measures and ‘data’

Joel Knutson — Dental Informatics and Project Manager for the IHS Electronic Dental Record For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at joel.knutson@ihs.gov.

The speaker has no conflicts of interest to report.

It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.

None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.

The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org

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Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.