{"id":28,"date":"2014-07-01T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:16:37","slug":"comment-on-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance is only one of several financial tools available to pay for medical and dental services.\u00a0 There are other tools like health savings accounts.\u00a0 Healthcare is a unique service that does not operate like standard business models.\u00a0 Be aware that prices of services or product are set at cost of operating the business and rate of inflation as other businesses do.\u00a0 As labor cost go up, so do the cost of the services.\u00a0 However, the unique dental need of each patient requires individual treatment that does not always fall within an insurance companies&#8217; policies.\u00a0 That is when insurance companies may say that we, as doctors, overcharge for services.\u00a0 These insurance companies are attempting to make a profit for their shareholders.\u00a0\u00a0 I try to keep fees as reasonable as possible to continue to operate for our community.\u00a0 Thank you.<a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"\/index.php?n=betapace-10-adet\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update\u00a0\u00a0 1\/12\/26<\/p>\n<p>Please review insurance policies this year.\u00a0 Most Medicare plans have changed to other third party insurers this year.\u00a0 Please do not get discouraged and stay with your dentist as most will work with you for your care.\u00a0 Also, look in policy for any waiting periods on work to be done.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance is only one of several financial tools available to pay for medical and dental services.\u00a0 There are other tools like health savings accounts.\u00a0 Healthcare is a unique service that does not operate like standard business models.\u00a0 Be aware that prices of services or product are set at cost of operating the business and rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drteethjc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}