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[quote=Anonymous]A very strong recommendation for Dr. Alan Kuwabera. My 3 and 6 year olds both love him, as us parents were quite impressed with both the office and his ability to work with kids. He was also one of the few top rated pediatric dentists who will see new patients and accepts our Dental insurance (Aetna). It's worth noting that patients can end up paying 2 to 10 times as much when they see dentists who don't affiliate with your insurance company and only work on a reimbursement basis, because you're being billed the "full retail" rate for your visit, instead of a pre-negotiated, discounted rate. Thus, after your insurance company pays what they will allow (what they consider fair for the services rendered), you don't end up getting stuck with a huge, full-retail price difference. Here's an example: My insurance company pays the full cost for regular check-ups. So let's say local dentists charge about $160 (full retail) for a normal check-up, but local preferred providers with your insurance company have a prenegotiated rate of $100 for the same service. If you see a preferred provider, they'll bill the insurance company $100 and you walk out not paying a dime. Now, alternatively, if they are not a preferred provider and work on a reimbursement basis, you pay the $160 full rate for the service and submit the claim. Your insurance company pays the $100 going rate for the service and you're stuck paying that extra $60 because you didn't choose a preferred provider with prenegotiated rates. That's why so many of the most popular dentists won't take insurance, assuming their patients don't mind, it's much, much more profitable not to. Yes, if you ask they'll say they'll submit the claim, but that's very different than taking the insurance and being a preferred provider. I went to a non-preferred dentist for years and shelled out hundreds of dollars in unnecessary expenses before figuring out this small detail. So what I do now is this......I cross-reference the top dentist list from the Washingtonian, with the dentist reviews available in Checkbook.org, and then review the comments on these forums. That gave me a Top 10 list, which I then called to determine who accepted my insurance and who would see a new patient. A bit of a lengthy process, but the results - finding a great dentist for myself and a great pediatric dentist for the kids - was well worth the effort.[/quote]
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