Choosing a Plan Provider – California Dental Insurance
Dental HMOs Insurance plans, picking a California plan dentist
When you get a dental HMO and have to choose a dentist in the network, how do you choose the best one? I can only afford a dental HMO insurance plan. Since I do not have a current dentist, choosing one in a network is not a big deal other than ensuring stuff gets done.
Reply: You want to start with calling the dental office in the plan network of providers and confirming that they are still accepting the plan and new patients. Once you confirm that, the next step would be asking for some basic questions that may be important to you. Such as hours of operations, how long they have been in business, if you have any special needs, can the office address your needs, do they have a website that you can review for any additional information about the dental office.
You should check review sites such as yahoo, google, and yelp, to name a few. Keep in mind that people tend to want to leave reviews when they have a terrible experience but only sometimes when they do not. However, if one office has excessively bad reviews, you may want to rethink picking them as a provider.