Last week I took my three kids in for cleanings, one of my children are two years so they just did a "friendly" visit and looked at them but did not clean them. The other two received cleanings and one had a tooth pulled based on the orthodontist recommendation. They brought me the paperwork to sign for pulling his tooth which was $140 so I signed and waited for them to finish up. When I went to check out, my balance was now over $500. WHAT??? She tried to tell me that I had to pay for all of it because my insurance company won't say how much they pay for and then they will pay me back. The interesting part is that I had my teeth cleaned and full x-rays the week before and walked out of my dentist without paying a single cent. I told her that and she made a comment about me not being happy with the $500 charge, which of course I said that I was not! She starts clicking away on the computer and comes up with some number and is now charging me for the "friendly" visit as a cleaning to try to get some more money out of my insurance company and only charged me some random co-pay amount and then said that I will probably end up with a credit on my account. Now I see how they can offer X-Box incentives and gift cards! Not to mention, they gave one kid more tokens for the cleaning than the other and when I mentioned it I got some lip about it until the other hygentist told her to give me the tokens to be fair to the kids.
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