Welcome to Week 4! Now that you are more familiar with how dental insurance works, as well as some of the terms they use, let's show some practical examples for those of you who are visual learners. Quick explanation of chart terminology: Procedure: What was done. Office Fee: How much we charge for the procedure regardless of insurance. Ins Max Fee: The highest amount the insurance company will consider paying for the procedure. Ins Appr Fee: The actual amount the insurance c

Welcome to Week 3! Now that we have covered the history of dental insurance as well as the different types, it time to break it down even smaller and discuss the important aspects of insurance that you need to know. Terminology Insurance companies have their own language when it comes to describing things and unless you are familiar with the terminology they use, you may find it difficult to understand your plan. Here we will lay out common terms you may come across and what

Welcome to Week 2 of our Dental Insurance crash course! This week we will be exploring what exactly it means when your dentist is in- or out-of-network, as well as clear up the confusion regarding some of the most commonly used acronyms. In Network? Out of Network? What does it all mean?? It was only years into the introduction of dental insurance that plans decided to market themselves differently to dentists. They started to propose different rate structures for dentists wh

In some ways medical and dental insurance operate similarly, but many people don’t take the time to read in to their dental plans, or even have a proper understanding of what their insurance provides (or often more importantly, what they don’t provide). In this month long series, we will be posting an article per week about dental insurance to help you become more informed about this under-utilized benefit. Dental care is often not placed into the same category as medical car