Now Is The Time For You To Know The Truth About Dental Insurance That Covers Dentures

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Dental Insurance That Covers Dentures

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WPRI) – Kristine Casey was afresh adapted for dentures, but she says they’re sitting on a shelf central City Dental in Woonsocket.

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“Not accepting teeth, I don’t alike appetite to be about my family,” she said asthmatic aback tears. “I can’t alike smile.”

Casey’s teeth were extracted in October.

“I went through a lot of affliction and adversity with that,” she said. “I alleged to get an arrangement to go get my teeth and they told me they could not accord them to me because they no best accustomed my insurance.”

Call 12 for Action apparent Rhode Island’s Medicaid affairs discontinued the provider cachet for Dr. Italo Lozada at City Dental. That agency Medicaid patients, like Kristine, accept to acquisition a altered dentist.

Holly Cekala, an apostle for Casey, said she has approved several avenues to acquisition a solution.

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“I said, ‘Can ancestors accession some funds and buy them for her?’ They said, ‘No. The accompaniment won’t acquiesce us to allegation bodies on Medicaid money for the teeth.'”

So Cekala appropriate that City Dental accord the dentures to Casey as a donation. They declined.

“I don’t accept how these teeth are activity to do anybody abroad any good,” Casey said.

Casey is not the alone accommodating adverse this situation.

The appointment administrator at City Dental told Alarm 12 for Action there are about a dozen sets of completed dentures that cannot be provided to patients.

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“Somebody can fix this,” Cekala said. “Somebody needs to do the appropriate thing.”

Dr. Lozada beneath Alarm 12 for Action’s appeal for an on-camera interview.

In an emailed statement, he said he was affected to briefly abutting his Woonsocket and Cranston offices.

“I aboveboard affliction the aggravation the cease of my appointment has caused,” he said. “I am currently alive agilely to abode the state’s concerns, and I achievement that I will be able to reopen my convenance and serve Medicaid patients afresh soon.”

For Casey, anon isn’t anon enough.

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“I would aloof like to be able to smile afresh and authority my arch up,” she said.

Ashley O’Shea, a agent for Rhode Island’s Executive Appointment of Health and Human Services, did not say why the accompaniment discontinued Dr. Lozada’s Medicaid provider status.

In a statement, O’Shea said, “We do not booty these accomplishments lightly, and are alert of the best interests of our Medicaid beneficiaries. We are actively alive with assembly of Dr. Lozada’s appointment to ensure associates abide to accept affliction with addition provider.”

Patients who were in the action of accepting dentures from Dr. Lozada’s appointment can alarm (401) 462-6503 to allocution with a accompaniment adumbrative to acquisition another options for their care. Associates can additionally chase online for Medicaid dental providers.

Susan Campbell (scampbell@wpri.com) is the Alarm 12 for Action and Target 12 customer investigator for WPRI 12 and Fox Providence. Follow her on Twitter and on Facebook.