How fees work
Full-arch care is paid for in steps, and each step's fee is in your written plan before it starts.
Insurance we work with
We bill the dental plans we are in network with and file claims for others. Dental plans often pay only a small share of implant care, and some medical plans pay for parts of the surgery. The plan decides what it covers. We tell you what we expect before you decide, and the plan's answer always comes first.
Dental PPO plans, in network or out of network
Medicare and Medicare Advantage: ask us before you plan
We are not enrolled with Medicaid or CHIP
If you pay yourself
Without insurance, you pay for each step as your written plan lists it, and you hear the fee for a step before we start it. Financing is offered by third-party lenders. Approval and terms are set by the lender.
How fees workEach step and its fee, in writing
Paid as each step is done
Third-party financing, set by the lender
Receipts for reimbursement
After every visit you get an itemized statement with the procedure codes, which you can send to a plan that reimburses you or to a health savings account.
Itemized, every visit
Procedure codes included
An estimate in advance
You can ask for a written estimate before any treatment. If you are paying without insurance, we give you a written good faith estimate in advance, when you schedule or whenever you ask. It lists each step we expect and the fee for each.
Written, before surgery
Each step and its fee
Take it home before you decide
Checking your benefits
Flor Loya, our treatment coordinator, checks your dental and medical benefits before your plan visit and tells you what the plans say. Bring your cards to the consultation. She speaks Spanish and English.
Dental and medical benefits
Checked before you decide
What the first visit includes
The consultation is a conversation and a 3D scan, about an hour and a half. You hear the fee for the consultation when you book. Treatment decisions come later, at the plan visit, with the plan in writing.
Open the patient portalA talk, then a scan
No decisions that day
Health history on the portal, not by message
The practice replaces these answers with its own.
What the written plan lists
You take it home. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
The steps
Scan, removal, surgery, the temporary set, the final teeth and each check-up.
The fee for each step
In dollars, step by step, so you can see what is paid when.
What your plans are expected to pay
Our coordinator's estimate from your benefits, and what is left for you.
What may change
If your scan or healing changes the plan, you hear it and get a new estimate before anything else is done.
Ask about a fee before you come
Flor can explain how your benefits might apply. No fee is quoted by message.