FAQ

Dental Bill Fighter is a company that helps you lower your out-of-pocket dental costs. We know that in today’s world, everything is more expensive, but your dental bills don’t always need to be. Navigating medical bills and insurance can often be difficult and time-consuming, and that is where our experts come to help

In recent years, out-of-pocket dental costs have skyrocketed at an alarming pace, even for patients with private insurance. Insurance companies have reduced their payouts (while raising premiums) and dental offices are constantly looking for ways to add often unnecessary costs to patients. Many dental offices are not privately owned and are instead corporately owned by DSO’s (Dental Service Organizations) that sometimes put profits over patients. Patients are not equipped to deal with the complexities and nuances of clinical dentistry, dental coding, and insurance practices, which puts the patient at a disadvantage when reviewing and paying bills. In some cases offices leverage information asymmetry to overwhelm patients with information to make the bill not understandable by a lay person.

Dental Bill Fighter uses a variety of methods to lower your dental bills. We list below several general examples of many that we have seen:

We can find inaccuracies and inconsistencies in your dental bill’s coding that your office may have overlooked or that sometimes has been purposefully coded to inflate your bill. We know how to talk and what to say to dental offices in these situations to help you. 

Many patients are confused by offices saying that they take your insurance, but end up with a large surprise  bill for an out of network provider. We can help you navigate difficulties when it comes to office network status (“in or out of network”) which is sometimes purposefully shrouded to milk your insurance benefits at your expense.

Some offices will unbundle different parts of a procedure to add costs to the final bill, when those services should be part of the core procedure. This is generally not allowed when a doctor takes your insurance and we can help you communicate with your office about these practices.

Balance billing by an office that takes your insurance is also generally not allowed as per the insurance contract the office signed. If an office is billing you for services beyond what your insurance EOB states that you owe, you may have a case against your provider.

There are many different insurance plans that all have different rules and regulations regarding billing practices that in-network doctors must adhere to. Tell us what insurance you have so we can help assess your case and find ways to lower your bill. 

We will do everything in our power to help you win your case. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that an office will adjust your bill, even if we know (and they often know too) that they are in the wrong.  We will advise on the next steps for you if this is the case. Other agencies such as dental boards, small claims courts, and regulatory bodies, can indeed force an office to adjust a bill if necessary.