I would give them ZERO stars if I were able!
Wow, my experience was HORRIFIC! In fact, this experience was so bad, I feel compelled to share it with others. This is my first Yelp! review ever.
I came as a new, otherwise healthy, young, client 40 minutes early to my appointment. The woman behind the desk was seemingly too busy to deal with me and attempted to tell me I didn't have dental coverage when I presented her with my insurance card. When I voiced my concern and attempted to alleviate her confusion by demonstrating to her on the insurance card where it indicates my dental coverage, her answer was "I don't know." I asked her if she could please call my insurance carrier and get it cleared up and she refused to do so and had a generally very unkind and unprofessional manner. I let it go for the time being, but noted it.
The technician, Randi, was great and she is NOT included in this review.
After my fairly uneventful cleaning, the dentist (Dr. Dano) entered the room and introduced himself without even looking at me. I greeted him and extended my hand to shake his, but he was so intent at looking at the computer screen, this gesture was completely unnoticed by him. The dentist then proceeds to examine my recently cleaned teeth and starts telling me about all the work that needs to be done. Being an extensively educated medical professional myself, I immediately thought it odd that I had never heard these recommendations from any other dentists (I have recently moved). Since I am very diligent about orodental care at home and see a dentist/get a cleaning/radiographs every 6 months, I certainly would've anticipated someone mentioning if I had significant pathology prior to now.
At this point, I had already determined that I would be going back to my regular dentist (although they are located significantly farther away) and was ready to check out. The cost of my routine dental cleaning was twice the price of cleanings elsewhere, which also surprised me. But I noted it, paid it (out of pocket because again, they stated I had no dental coverage), and left. I contacted my insurance carrier when I got home and they, of course, confirmed my dental coverage.
So, the following day, I called the dentist office back and again informed them of my dental coverage and strongly encouraged them to contact the carrier themselves to confirm this and to facilitate the appropriate billing changes/updates to my account. This time, they did call the carrier, confirmed coverage and left me a message as such.
When I called the dentist office back to see what needed to get done to ensure I was credited the appropriate amount and that my insurance got billed correctly as well, that's when the real circus ensued:
The Office Manager (also the dentist's wife) proceeds to tell me that yes, I've got dental coverage and that they could apply it to my fillings. First of all, I did NOT receive any fillings that day, nor did I schedule any future appointments to receive fillings, so now I'm confused, thinking she may have me confused with another patient. I diplomatically suggested that she perhaps might be confused, that I didn't receive any fillings, have no future appointments for fillings and that all I really needed was for my account to be credited for my out of pocket expenses and appropriately submitted to insurance.
This is when the Office Manager started literally yelling at me that I was the one who was confused. At this point, I was starting to get irritated as well but also felt a little bad this poor old lady was so confused and getting herself so upset about her confusion. So I asked to speak to her manager/supervisor. She informed me she is/was the manager/supervisor (!!!), that they were going to credit my account (I can only hope this gets done correctly) and then slams down the phone, effectively hanging up on me.
I have submitted a complaint to the BBB and have a phone call into the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to ensure this office's billing practices are legitimate.
I absolutely would not go here. read more