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Well, I have an appointment with the dental surgeon, in Brookline (rather than out past 495), at which he will extract two more teeth, place implants, and then put on the partial that I was originally supposed to be getting in early July.
Vitaliy [the dental receptionist] called and asked whether I could do 2:30 on the 13th. I said yes, hung up, went to enter it on my calendar, and saw a conflict: I was scheduled for a telemedicine appointment with my psychiatrist at 3:00 that afternoon. So I called Vitaliy back and asked about rescheduling. He said that the surgeon is difficult to schedule with, and asked if I could reschedule the other appointment.
After a couple of conversations, I am now scheduled to see Dr, Awad on October 9 at 9 a.m., telemedicine. Yesterday her office offered me August 19th, but when I got around to looking at MyChart I saw it was with a different doctor (and also that I still had the appointment I asked them to reschedule. (The other doctor is probably as good as the one I'm seeing now, if not better, but switching psychiatrists can be a pain.)
I asked Vitaliy whether this dentist and office are in my insurance network, and he assured me that they will charge me the somewhat lower with-insurance fee for the upcoming dental work (which doesn't mean it will be cheap). I have no money left on my dental insurance for 2024, so the question of whether this practice takes my insurance in general is less urgent than it might be.
Interestingly, Vitaliy called me from his cell phone, and urged me to make a note of the number in case I need to reschedule. So I added him to my phone's list of contacts, with "dental receptionist" in the "company" field.
Vitaliy [the dental receptionist] called and asked whether I could do 2:30 on the 13th. I said yes, hung up, went to enter it on my calendar, and saw a conflict: I was scheduled for a telemedicine appointment with my psychiatrist at 3:00 that afternoon. So I called Vitaliy back and asked about rescheduling. He said that the surgeon is difficult to schedule with, and asked if I could reschedule the other appointment.
After a couple of conversations, I am now scheduled to see Dr, Awad on October 9 at 9 a.m., telemedicine. Yesterday her office offered me August 19th, but when I got around to looking at MyChart I saw it was with a different doctor (and also that I still had the appointment I asked them to reschedule. (The other doctor is probably as good as the one I'm seeing now, if not better, but switching psychiatrists can be a pain.)
I asked Vitaliy whether this dentist and office are in my insurance network, and he assured me that they will charge me the somewhat lower with-insurance fee for the upcoming dental work (which doesn't mean it will be cheap). I have no money left on my dental insurance for 2024, so the question of whether this practice takes my insurance in general is less urgent than it might be.
Interestingly, Vitaliy called me from his cell phone, and urged me to make a note of the number in case I need to reschedule. So I added him to my phone's list of contacts, with "dental receptionist" in the "company" field.
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