I am always surprised when someone asks me this. I guess some doctors or dentists are not? We are always happy to meet potential new patients. Usually when they call we ask if they have dental insurance in order to find out if they are allowed to go out of network. My practice only participates in Delta Premier dental insurance. We are "insurance friendly", which means that we do accept assignment of benefits from most of our patients dental insurance plans and usually we ask the patients to pay out of pocket only the portion of the bill not reimbursed by their insurance.
We ask the 'dental insurance' question because many potential new patients assume we accept(participate in) their dental insurance and might be disappointed if they visited us and found out that we do not participate in their insurance. Even though most of the callers plans do allow them to go out of network,we like to make them aware if we are not participants in their plan, prior to their booking an appointment.
Great. Goes to show your dedication to the field. In India it is the other way round as the number of Dentists is very large.
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But why are you limiting it to one insurance company.. aren't you losing some business that way?
ReplyDeleteWe certainly are "losing business" by not participating with more insurance plans, but my practice is primarilly a 'Fee for service practice and I believe this allows me to spend the time I need to perform my dentistry in the careful manner that I prefer.
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