Back

Oral Surgery

Edit

This referral requires CC/EMC if the referral is emergent.

Senior Clinician

Place an order for the referral in Epic.Before clinic ends, communicate the necessity and urgency of the referral to the TS.Inform ACT about the referral and send the patient to ACT.

Teaching Senior

Communicate the referral to ACT.

Access to Care Team

Make sure the patient has charity care, or Emergency Medicaid if the referral is emergent (to be determined by the patient's clinical team).If not, follow the process to obtain charity care (or Emergency Medicaid) for the patient.Once the patient has charity care (or Emergency Medicaid), contact the Emerging Referrals Manager to make the appointment.Then, call the patient to see if he/she can attend the appointment.

Cost

The cost of an appointment for patients with charity care level 1 is $15. Appointments will be more expensive for patients with a higher charity care level. See costs below. These prices apply to both initial consultation appointments and surgical procedures.

Appointment costs by charity care level are as follows:

CCL1 - $15
CCL2 - $18
CCL3 - $36
CCL4 - $90
CCL5 - $108
CCL6 - $135
CCL7 - $180

Wait time

Once the patient has charity care, it takes about 1 week for an oral surgery initial consult appointment to be scheduled, unless it is emergent.

Contact Information

Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Annenberg Building Second Floor, 1468 Madison Avenue (at E. 101st Street), New York, NY 10029.

Phone numbers: (212) 241-7131 or (212) 659-8528

For questions, please reach out to the ACT Referrals Chair (see EHHOP Roster).