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I have an anecdote: I had a small fat cyst near my eyelid and the doctor removed in less than 45 seconds. I later got the bill for multiple cyst removals in bo

by todipa 7y ago

I have an anecdote: I had a small fat cyst near my eyelid and the doctor removed in less than 45 seconds. I later got the bill for multiple cyst removals in both eyes, granted it was only $75, it still was wrong. I contacted the office and said that this is simply not true and if they don't remove this from the bill, I would contact the insurance company. They argued with me saying that they had in fact removed many of them in both eyes. If you look at it from the Doctor's POV, he is lying because there is a low risk of getting caught. The penalty for getting caught is probably not high enough.

elliekelly 7y ago
This happened to me as well but with a dentist. When I first moved to Boston I had never had any cavities but my new dentist kept remarking about how great my dental insurance was - I was in the insurance sweet spot of under 26 so I was covered by my mom's policy as primary and had secondary coverage through my dad's policy and my school's policy. Well wouldn't you know, I averaged two cavities a year during law school even though my brushing & flossing habits were unchanged. When I finally graduated and switched to a dentist closer to my office I insisted to my new dentist that I had had six cavities filled and he insisted that I most definitely hadn't. There wasn't a single filling to be seen on my x-rays. Dentist #1 had been scheduling me to have a cavity drilled after every regular visit. Apparently he was just giving me a shot of lidocaine and pretending to drill in my mouth for an hour so he could bill my "great" insurance.
- sjg007 7y ago
  You should report your previous dentist. I’ve found dentists that are trying to make money start pushing deep cleaning despite never needing it ever.
  - elliekelly 7y ago
    I did actually but I never heard anything back, though the dentist retired about a year later. I always wondered if it was related to my complaint or just a coincidence.
- andyman1080 7y ago
  You’re lucky he didn’t actually do anything to your teeth. Story of a dentist giving unnecessary root canals https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

by todipa 7y ago

elliekelly 7y ago

This happened to me as well but with a dentist. When I first moved to Boston I had never had any cavities but my new dentist kept remarking about how great my dental insurance was - I was in the insurance sweet spot of under 26 so I was covered by my mom's policy as primary and had secondary coverage through my dad's policy and my school's policy. Well wouldn't you know, I averaged two cavities a year during law school even though my brushing & flossing habits were unchanged. When I finally graduated and switched to a dentist closer to my office I insisted to my new dentist that I had had six cavities filled and he insisted that I most definitely hadn't. There wasn't a single filling to be seen on my x-rays. Dentist #1 had been scheduling me to have a cavity drilled after every regular visit. Apparently he was just giving me a shot of lidocaine and pretending to drill in my mouth for an hour so he could bill my "great" insurance.

sjg007 7y ago
You should report your previous dentist. I’ve found dentists that are trying to make money start pushing deep cleaning despite never needing it ever.
- elliekelly 7y ago
  I did actually but I never heard anything back, though the dentist retired about a year later. I always wondered if it was related to my complaint or just a coincidence.
andyman1080 7y ago
You’re lucky he didn’t actually do anything to your teeth. Story of a dentist giving unnecessary root canals https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...