Dental insurance billing

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Avatar m tn I am planning on getting them removed soon due to recurrent infections and I was wondering if it is more cost effective to get a dental insurance plan or pay out of pocket. What are the typical cost to remove something like this? Will there be surgery required? How much will a good insurance plan cover or is it more cost effective to just pay out of pocket? Thank you.
7882296 tn?1405391067 From my understanding, you should still be able to receive care for your pregnancy regardless of insurance. Try calling the billing office of the hospital to find out but I'm almost positive that there's a law about that, which provides medical care for pregnancies without insurance. I'm sorry I don't have more info but I remember reading about it or hearing about it before.
Avatar n tn My daughter had a procedure done in Boise, Idaho, I have excellent health insurance and the doctor booked the out patient facility for the surgery. The hospital is now billing me for the operating room twice. I contacted my insurance company and they have requested the medical reports for this second charge and have never been sent any. My letters from my insurance company state this is a duplicate charge and tell me to ignore it.
Avatar n tn if im on my parents insurance, can i provide my dr with a different address to be billed at?
Avatar n tn Dear Jerry1997, You might have figured out that the fact that both plans consider themselves your primary doesn’t work in your favor; it just means that they will not coordinate benefits. In cases where a person is lucky enough to have 2 types of coverage, the best thing to do is to find out which plan covers a particular service at a higher level & use the insurance with higher coverage.
Avatar f tn i have blue cross blue shield, and wow have they been good to me!! they covered all the tests i've had to do, including the HSG, sonohystergram(had it done twice), all ultrasounds, bloodwork, injections, etc. nothing major was found and they classified me as a "pre-existing condition" where my uterine lining doesnt sluth off after my peroid. so my question is how come they wont cover the iui's? has anyone's insurance covered this?
228686 tn?1211554707 Dear Savas, The hospital where you had your treatment should have your Anesthesiologist’s name & contact information. If they can just provide you with his full name, you can use a search engine like Google & find his contact information.
7750527 tn?1397990512 I'm 12 weeks and haven't seen any Dr yet because I'm waiting on the market place to approve insurance I'm so frustrated I've had a miscarriage before so I'm extra nervous. Has anybody els felt with insurance problems with the marketplace?
Avatar f tn I have 3 active abscesses in my "upper teeth or face" not sure. A CT found a cyst in my face/sinus cavity. The abscess's had my entire left side face swollen out like the elephant man. The pain was excruciating. The ENT said I needed to have sinus surgery to remove cyst. I chose to have that done immediately in office instead of waiting til morning to have done in hospital w/medications (Dr said procedure takes 10-15 min only) so I did it...2.5 HOURS later....
Avatar f tn My ob has to be paid in full by 28wks and that covers the delivery and after care so maybe just ask the billing department!
Avatar f tn He has been in a speech program for 8 months through the hospital. Until recently our insurance paid for most of this service, and now they have reversed all the payments for the speech quoteting that it does not qualify as a sickness or illness.....I guess I just wondered if there is anyone else out there who could help me. We are looking at a $12,000 bill if they make us pay. We do not have that kind of money. Anyone know if we can fight this or if we have any rights?
Avatar f tn By not having a massive billing department on staff, the doc can charge lower rates, and passes at least some of the savings on to the patient. Win/win. The insurance company and its billing staff are cut out of the loop, except for reimbursement payments, which are pretty straightforward to process. You don't get all your money back, but quite a lot of it.
Avatar n tn I asked to talk to the dentist - and after being on hold for 15 minutes, I hung up and called back. I got their voicemail! What recourse do I have here?? I plan on calling my dental insurance tomorrow, on my lunch break. Thanks for any suggestions or help you might have. Please address them to my e-mail address or on this community.
Avatar f tn It is also illegal for you to be treated any differently no matter what your insurance. I worked in an emergency room for years doing billing and that was a huge policy. Don't worry about insurance you will be given the same care as everyone else.
Avatar n tn It's expensive! That is all you need to know. You will need insurance.
Avatar f tn You have to use both or its considered insurance fraud you can get in big trouble for it.
Avatar f tn Medicare is my primary and medicaid is my secondary. My doctor only takes Medicaid but had tried billing both and neither is paying. I thought I had this fixed 5 months ago and today my doc says that nothing has been paid and I might have to find a different doctor. I'm almost 33 weeks and needless to say that scares me having to maybe find a different doc.
Avatar f tn Has anyone else experienced this?! This is my first pregnancy and I have BCBS insurance and after my first visit I received a bill for 2800 dollars. I called the office they said it was for delivery and postnatal care. Well my deductible for insurance is only 1250 and they didn't even file this with the insurance company because I called them. Are they allowed to do this?
7928796 tn?1396351929 If you want home birth do not call your insurance... they'll red flag you. I used a third party (Larsen Billing) and it cost me $20 but they code everything so insurance pays. My insurance online provider search gave me in network options that were actually covered 100% for certain midwives, but bc I chose out of network my insurance is paying 75%, still not too terribly bad. I absolutely adore my midwife. She's absolutely wonderful!
8305112 tn?1402009678 So if you say had an appt july 31st they can bill the old insurance. If you have an appt aug 1st then they would bill the new insurance. So as long as they know it should be ok it the same thing when an old insurance ends dec 31st of one year and new insurance starts jan 1st.
Avatar f tn The codes are for insurance company purposes. If you're paying for this yourself without insurance the codes don't mean anything anyway -- the charge is the charge for the service rendered. Generally, psychiatrists charge a set fee in non-insurance situations depending on the length of the visit.
Avatar n tn After few conversations with different people in the collection companies, they took (again) my medical insurance number and billed my medical insurance company, which rejected the claims due to overdue period of claims. I never provided my social security number during the accident, therefore, I suspect they don't have it in their records. I checked my credit records and there is no collections. What should I do? It's obvious that the neglect came from them not me.
Avatar f tn Either your anesthesiologist is out of line with their expectation, or your Insurance Carrier has set some unrealistic guidelines. You need to contact your Insurance Carrier and ask them if there are any in-network anesthesiologists, in the hospital where you had your surgery & if there are, would they have done the same work for $1200. Once you have that info, we can plan the next steps.
Avatar f tn Everyone fares differently based on circumstances they can neither control nor predict. They may have no insurance. They may have insurance, but their employer chooses their insurance plan and it may have a payout limit or not cover a drug or treatment they need. They may or may not be old enough to be on Medicare or, given the different standards of the 50 states, be poor enough to be on Medicaid.
Avatar f tn to do the billing and hassle with the insurance companies about how to treat and how long to treat Lyme disease. The insurance companies may rely on 'old think' and say that a short course of doxycycline is all you get, when actually it may not be the right medication for the right length of time. HOWEVER -- my Lyme doc would give me a bill and I would pay it, then I would submit a claim to my insurance company.
Avatar n tn hi, i don't have any dental insurance so I need to pick and choose which tests and procedures at the dentist are really needed. I ask you this because I hope to find unbiased opinion. Last time I skipped the peridontal xray, but got the cavity xray and cleaning...he found 2 tiny cavities that ran me $400 out of my pocket but later a hygenist said maybe that wasn't necessary as the decay could have been reversed... So what do I "really" need..