Published filing window · Last verified 2026-08-30
SC Medicaid (DentaQuest) publishes an initial dental filing window of 12 months. Corrected-claim and appeal windows, the exact wording, and sources are below.
South Carolina Medicaid Dental (SCDHHS — DentaQuest ASO)
Initial claims
12 months
only “clean” claims received and entered into the claims processing system within one year from the date of service (date of discharge for hospital claims) are considered for payment — an SCDHHS rule, not a DentaQuest-set limit (Provider Administrative and Billing Manual, July 1, 2026)
Published openly
30 days — from the remittance advice showing the denial, on the SCDHHS-CR form
Route: SCDHHS-CR form to SCDHHS; claims themselves are filed to DentaQuest, the SCDHHS dental ASO.
SC Medicaid (DentaQuest) states this window in months and the calculator counts calendar days, so there is no preset for it — pick another payer's window or enter the day count your contract uses.
Date of service plus the payer's filing window, in calendar days. Estimate only — the payer's contract wording controls.
Enter a date of service to compute the deadline.
Deadline = date of service + the filing window in calendar days; days left counts from your device's date today. This tool counts calendar days. Payer contracts may count differently — some windows run in months, from the end of the month of service, or from the date the payer received the claim — so treat the result as a planning estimate and confirm the payer's own contract wording. Windows outside 30–730 days are clamped, and a date of service more than a year ahead is rejected as a likely typo. Payer windows in the list carry the payer's published figure; the cited source appears on that payer's page.
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