For our Patients without Dental Insurance:

    We ask that for all patients without dental insurance, accounts be kept current and up to date by paying for services as they are rendered. By reducing the tremendous costs of billing and bookkeeping each month, we strive to offset many of our other increased costs. We have several payment options available. Payment can be made by cash, personal check, Discover, VISA, Master Card and CareCredit.

    We understand that some dental services can present financial challenge to our patients. Therefore, in order to provide the necessary care recommended, an extended payment option is available when needed. After the doctor presents the treatment plan to the patient and the cost of the dental care has been established, two options are available to patients without dental insurance:

For our patients with Dental Insurance:

    Your dental insurance program provides you with an excellent benefit for maintaining a superlative level of oral health. We will make every attempt to assist you in keeping your insurance submittals up-to-date. After each visit where dental services are completed, an insurance claim will be sent to your insurance company. You will be asked to assign payment of benefits to the doctor. You will also be asked to pay some or all of your co-pay at that time. When your insurance payment is received at the office and assigned against the appropriate claim, the remaining balance (if any) will be billed to the patient on the first of the following month. Payment is expected within 30 days.

     We file insurance claims as a service to our dental patients. There are several facts that we ask you to keep in mind with regard to your dental insurance:

1. Your dental insurance program is a contract between you, your employer, and the insurance company. We are not a party to the contract.
2. Not all dental services are a covered benefit in all contracts.
3. You, the patient, are ultimately responsible for the total cost of your dental care.

    Should major services be needed, extended payment options are available. A Pre-Treament Estimate will be sent to your insurance company requesting an estimate of coverage for services to be completed. Upon reply from the insurance company, a letter will be sent to you from our office with:

1. The proposed dental service and fee.
2. Estimated coverage by the insurance carrier.
3. Estimated balance due.

    The estimated balance due is expected at the time services are complete. If the Pre-Treatment Estimate is not back before the services are complete, we will estimate the monetary amount to be placed on account based on the usual customary policies of the average insurance company.

Billing:

    Bills are sent out monthly and are printed on the last day of the month. The balance due is payable within 26 days. Any account which goes unpaid for more than 26 days is subject to a monthly billing charge of $5.00. We understand that special circumstances occur in any patient's life. Please feel free to discuss special considerations with the front desk staff should need arise.

    If you are unable to maintain a scheduled appointment please notify us as soon as possible. If a patient misses two or more appointments without prior notification a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) will be imposed after the second missed appointment.