How much should a dentist visit cost with insurance? I get “periodontal maintenance” (more expensive & extensive than a regular cleaning) every 3-4 months to keep my gums from receding because I’ve got 2-5mm pockets. My latest visit had a “submitted fee of $680, an “accepted fee” of $280, insurance paid $70. I was left to pay $130. The math doesn’t add up, I know, but that’s what the bill says. Why would Delta Dental only pay $70 for a fancy cleaning? Annoyingly, $88 of my bill was for “D1330, Oral hygiene instructions.” That doesn’t seem right. Thoughts?
\nAt another dentist’s office, my daughter had a visit. They didn’t clean her teeth, only examined and applied some fluoride varnish. Insurance paid $130 and I owe $60.
\nIs this how dental insurance goes these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How much should a dentist visit cost with insurance? I get “periodontal maintenance” (more expensive & extensive than a regular cleaning) every 3-4 months to keep my gums from receding because I’ve got 2-5mm pockets. My latest visit had a “submitted fee of $680, an “accepted fee” of $280, insurance paid $70. I was left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10854,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}