Good info! My experience has been that if I get a crown the price will be around $1000 with my insurance "discount". If I go the same dentist and say I'm a "cash customer" the price will be around $1000.
I live near a University with a Dental school. They have a clinic that offers services for half what private dentist charge. The drawback is you need to have time and patience.
I just changed my dentist and insurance (to a PPO this dentist accepts), because of negotiated pricing, between the insurance company and the dentist, for a set amount for each procedure. I received a letter from my prior dentist, in July, that effective 11/1/2023, they will stop accepting/billing any insurance, and will only be using their own "plans". (They've had their "plans" in place for over a year, but were still accepting and billing regular dental insurance.) So, as their patient, you must pick the "plan" you want, and pay a monthly premium (which was $10. more a month than I paid my dental insurance company), directly to the dentist. The problem I had with this, is that the dentist alone sets the amount they want to charge for a procedure, and it's non-negotiable. My last visit, in March, I had two small fillings, for which my co-pay was $102., using my insurance. I asked what the price would have been, if I were on the dentist "plan", and it would have been $230. Not acceptable.
I'm probably going to just skip the dentist after I get through with my hip replacement surgeries. Been waiting on the surgeries for a year now, and 1 month before I was suppose to have the first surgery, they informed me they needed dental clearance. Even with a dental HMO they are wanting $1,400 for 4 fillings and a cleaning. I feel like I'm being held hostage - lol
Oh no! I'm so sorry. Would your dentist be willing to work out a lower rate if you paid cash? Maybe even a dental school? Dental care is so important and it's really terrible that it is so unaffordable.
At 7:55 you talk about NCD plans. This is the only real important thing in the video, yet you don't elaborate or even say what NCD stands for. There is nothing in your comment section either.
@@diolievecbdproducts8378 Hi again. NCD stands for National Care Dental. I don''t understand your reference to "no claim discount". Can you please elaborate?
