Insurance for Holistic Dentist
General Disclaimer
The medical/dental/health information on this site is provided as an informational resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnosis or treatment purposes. This information is not intended to educate the patient, does not create any patient-physician relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical/dental advice, diagnosis and treatment. Please consult your health care provider before making any health-related decisions. For more info, contact Natural Dentistry Center for an appointment.
Top Holistic Dentist & Ceramic Implant Dentist in Connecticut Sends Claims to Insurance
We are honored to have you consider becoming our patient and experience the incredible health, wellness, and dental services at Natural Dentistry – a Biological Dentistry + Ceramic Implants offering alternatives to root canals and to metal implants. We welcome every patient to complete the New Patient Inquiry Request Form to learn more about how their private dental insurance may cover the following services at Natural Dentistry: zirconia implants, root canal alternatives (extractions), biocompatible crowns and whether their dental insurance carrier offers out-of-network benefits.
Please fill out the New Patient Request Form to receive a call from the New Patient Concierge to answer all your questions!
Natural Dentistry + Ceramic Implants provides extraordinary biological and holistic dental services, leading the country as a destination for biological dentistry for patients across the USA. When assessing a new patient, Dr. May diagnoses and recommends treatment options solely on the basis of optimal health and biological indicators, not based on insurance coverage. At Natural Dentistry, we believe it is essential for every patient to understand the importance of choosing a dental practitioner that aligns with your health beliefs and clinical needs, regardless of insurance coverage.
Patients who do not wish to pursue health-optimizing treatment due to insurance coverage may not be the right fit for a practice dedicated to uncompromising biological health-driven dentistry or world-leading innovative healing modalities / longevity therapies.
Out-of-Network Benefits
Natural Dentistry participates as an out-of-network provider for non-Medicare and non-Medicaid plans, which means that patients have the opportunity to see Dr. May, receive services, and then independently send claims and coordinate any benefits and reimbursement directly with their insurance carriers.
No Insurance Accepted
It is very important that new patients considering seeing Dr. May, one of the leading holistic dentists in the USA, understand that Natural Dentistry is NOT an insurance-driven dental practice in terms of diagnosis, recommended treatment, and fees. Natural Dentistry does not participate with any dental insurance carriers as an in-network dentist.
Insurance Estimates
It is the patient’s responsibility to attempt to get estimates for dental work from the treatment plan received in our office. Patients are wholly responsible for the balance of the bill in our office the day services are rendered.
We do not send pre-authorizations. We do not write medical narratives. We do not send photos or explanations.
In full transparency, as an out-of-network provider, we do not provide letters of medical necessity, written narratives, or any other burdensome proof that archaic dental insurance companies tend to request ONLY for the purpose of denying the claim for the patient. Insurance and the system is built around administrative burden—hoping that patients and dental offices just give up. We support our patients but do not play insurance games.
What do we send to the primary dental carrier as an extended courtesy?
As a courtesy extended to our patients, we just send a generic super bill, also known as a F2012 dental claim form, and any standard digital xrays. We only send electonically, not by fax, not by paper. If your dental carrier has requirements that do not meet our courtesy offering, then you as the patient must send in your claims directly to them.
First Appointment
Should you choose to make a new patient appointment, please note your first new patient appointment will be 100% out of pocket and will include mandatory diagnostics!
Patient Responsibility
It is the responsibility of all new patients who are with out-of-network dental insurance to call their dental carrier/dental insurance provider and inquire whether they have out-of-network benefits that would allow Natural Dentistry to send claims as an out-of-network dental provider based on a specific plan. If your carrier is out-of-network with Natural Dentistry, you may be reimbursed directly by your carrier.
Summary
To reiterate, Natural Dentistry solely functions as an out-of-network provider. In addition, Natural Dentistry accepts all HSA/FSA (flexible or health savings account) cards and offers incredible financing options that empower patients with strong borrowing options that allow them to rebuild their entire mouth and become disease and infection free in an entirely biological and metal-free way while paying off the procedures under subsidized fixed interest rates over 6+ years (or 0% APR, no-interest short-term plans). Between out-of-network coverage, which helps cover the cost of services, and third-party financing, over 90% of our patients can afford their full treatment plans and have the opportunity to regain their health and wellness and change their lives.
Regaining an individual’s health by seeing a top dental practitioner like Dr. May is a step that one has to be prepared for since the decision represents not just a clinical one or an insurance preference but a truly life-altering one! Many of Dr. May’s patients state that getting their health back was worth every penny, and the decision has been transformative in changing the course of their happiness and life trajectories. Changing lives and healing are the driving forces behind Natural Dentistry’s treatment planning philosophy.
Insurance FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Here are the most frequently asked questions about the insurance.
Does Dr. May accept insurance? What is the dental office insurance policy?
It is very important that new patients considering seeing Dr. May, Connecticut’s top holistic cosmetic dentist, understand that Natural Dentistry is NOT an insurance-driven dental practice in terms of diagnosis, recommended treatment, and fees. As of 2021, Natural Dentistry does not participate with any dental insurance carriers as an in-network dentist. We do participate as an out-of-network provider which means that patients have the opportunity to see Dr. May, receive services, and then independenly send claims and coordinate any benefits and reimbursement directly with their insurance carriers.
To reiterate, Natural Dentistry solely functions as an out-of-network provider. In addition, Natural Dentistry accepts all HSA/FSA (flexible or health savings account cards) and offers incredible financing options that empower patients with strong borrowing options that allow them to rebuild their entire mouth and become disease and infection free in an entirely biological and metal-free way while paying off the procedures under subsidized fixed interest rates over 6+ years (or 0% APR, no interest plans short term plans). Between out-of-network coverage, which helps cover the cost of services, and third-party financing, over 90% of our patients can afford their full treatment plans and have the opportunity to regain their health, wellness, and change their lives.
Who are Dr. May’s typical patients and where do they come from?
Natural Dentistry has ranks as of one of the best dental practices in the US due to Dr. May’s:
- Exceptional surgical experience and skills in placing and restoring zirconia implants
- Top level credentials across the nations across Universities, Biological Programs, Surgery Programs
- Remarkable surgical skills in delivering health-focused stunnhing cosmetic dentistry and smile transformations
- Comprehensive and results-oriented delivery of life-changing health and dental services
- Notoriety as the Top Biological and Top Holistic Dentist in the USA
- Patients come internationally from Europe, Asia, and South America and nationally from all the states. Patients seeking large surgeries or delicate front tooth zirconia implant procedures, or just want the very best in the holistic and biological dentistry space.
- Biological and Holistic patients from all over the Northeast from Florida to Maine, are considered “local” patients! Connecticut-based patients are considered “backyard” as so many patients travel to see Dr. May from all over the world and USA.
- Top Zirconia Dental Implant Dentist in the USA
Making Dr. May one of the top holistic dentists in the USA
Natural Dentistry is honored to call a limited number of celebrities, both local and national, Fortune 500 executives and government officials as patients and prides itself on patient confidentiality. For high-profile individuals, we close the office to other patients and limit staff on days of procedures to protect the anonymity and ensure the confidentiality of celebrity patients. Dr. May has a following of patients from affluent areas of Connecticut, New York City, Westchester, Fairfield, Greenwich, Long Island, New Jersey and other locales where patients are seeing high-end biological dentistry and cosmetic dental services and for ensured confidentiality.
Dr. May is sought after by patients all over the U.S.A., and has patients fly across the country to see him for full arch implant reconstruction work, dental implants, amalgam removal, ozone therapy, root canal alternatives and smile design work, including California, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Minnesota, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, Virginia, Georgia, Montana, Kentucky just to name a few recent patient locations and of course, thousands of patients from the tri-state: New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Because of the diversity of insurances that patients have and the wait list that Dr. May has accumulated over the last year, Natural Dentistry has been forced to reduce its in-network participation, however, participates with all dental and medical insurances as an out-of-network provider. This helps cover the cost of services instead of not accepting any insurance at all.
How do I know whether you accept my dental insurance?
Natural Dentistry is not an insurance-driven practice and, as of 2022, no longer accepts any dental insurance plans. Natural Dentistry is a 100% out-of-network FFS biological dentist provider. As a courtesy to our beloved patients, we can send a claim to the primary dental carrier, only electronically, as an out-of-network provider. We are NOT in-network with your insurance carrier.
Our out-of-network insurance participation helps cover the cost of services, and health savings accounts and flexible savings accounts, along with patient financing, greatly help our patients afford our premium dental services. However, as an out-of-network dentist, we will bill all services on your behalf to your carrier (only your primary carrier). Your carrier will reimburse you directly (if they don’t deny the claim, which they can do).
Why are some premium dental services at Natural Dentistry not covered by insurance?
Part of our philosophy places our dental patients’ health above all else – which leads us to use the most premium, hard to source dental materials and equipment available on the market for biological, non-toxic, metal-free and natural results. Our practice puts in an extraordinarily high degree of effort required into all patients, spending 3.0x more time with each patient than a typical dentist or dental surgeon properly diagnose, researching alternative modalities of treatment for treatment planning and ultimately executing the perfect dentistry required to ensure the patient’s health is optimized and the dental results are worthy of admiration by patients and strangers alike.
Due to our philosophy to put health and dental material quality above all else, our practice is not dental insurance reimbursement focused; however, to accommodate patients, we do accept some (limited) insurance plans. Because we are a holistic and premium dental implant and reconstruction practice, there are some services that insurance will not reimburse for as they consider them unnecessary or “experimental”. Our office thinks of them as “cutting edge, research-based alternatives” being offered by less than 3% of the world’s top dentists, which Dr. Yuriy May falls into. Dr. Yuriy May’s priority is to deliver optimal health, wellness and beautiful dental reconstruction, irrespective of standard dental insurance coverage policies.
How will I know the cost of treatment?
Each patient will receive full pricing estimates of treatment plans and the first new patient appointment. The directional estimates can be provided over the phone, and the estimates are exactly as they are stated: estimates only. They are the fees of our clinic and have no relation to insurance.
Natural Dentistry cannot control whether patients’ dental insurance will cover any dental services or a portion of dental services or not, nor can the practice control additional services that Dr. May may need to deliver during treatment based on radiographic information or observed infections during therapies or surgery.
All patients are responsible for 100% of the fees for services rendered by Dr. May that insurance does not cover. The best part is we offer patient financing that allows patients to borrow as much as $50,000 over 6+ years, which has allowed many of our patients to pursue transformative treatment, not just afford some dental work. When patients truly believe in the power of health and find the right clinician, like Dr. May, a top biological dentist in the country, anything and everything become possible.
What is the financial policy for scheduling appointments for treatment with Dr. May?
Once every new patient is presented with a treatment plan and recommended treatment options, patients are required to leave a 50% deposit based on the cost of treatment to book their next appointment.
Can I use my Health Savings Account or Flexible Savings Account to pay for dental services?
Natural Dentistry is a dental practice that is eligible for HSA and FSA spending accounts and also encourages all patients to maximize their HSA and FSA accounts for tax-saving benefits on healthcare in general. All eligibility and tax questions should be directed to a CPA for official determination of appropriate use of HSA and FSA funds.
What if I can’t afford to see a Top Holistic Dentist & Zirconia Implant Dentist?
Natural Dentistry can help write letters of medical need (based on treatment recommendations and findings) for hardship withdrawals from retirement plans, and patients can seek outside methods of raising funds or financing for their treatment needs.
Discounts are not available.
Financing through Lending Club may be offered based on financial hardship, the severity of the health of the patient and other circumstances that need to be discussed with our compassionate office manager. LendingClub is available with 0% financing options and other interest-bearing options that extend up to 5 years. Interest rates will depend on the individual financial health of the individual and their credit score that LendingClub and its affiliate banking partners will evaluate.
Our goal and mission is to deliver premium holistic dental care to everyone—as we believe everyone deserves the best health from honest, knowledgeable, and highlky skilled biological dentists. In order to help financially challenged patients achieve health, aesthetic, and restorative goals, Natural Dentistry is happy to discuss financing options and help patients phase treatment over months to achieve biological health-focused treatment goals. Additionally, we encourage the use of Health Care Savings (“HSA”) and Flexible Savings Accounts (“FSA”) to help save on taxes and make treatment more affordable.
About Dr. Yuriy May
Widely sought after for his precision and leadership in biological oral surgery and zirconia implantology, Dr. Yuriy May is recognized as an accomplished leader in metal-free, biologically driven dentistry. With over 12 years of clinical experience, his work is defined by uncompromising standards, refined surgical execution, and outcomes that support both oral and systemic health.
Dr. May holds advanced certifications and training in zirconia implantology from programs ranging from IAOCI and Tufts University, is Board Certified as a Naturopathic Dentist by the ANMCB, and is a distinguished Ceramic Implant Ambassador for SDS—an honor reserved for clinicians shaping the future of ceramic implant science.
A respected educator and international lecturer, Dr. May has presented extraordinary ceramic implant cases to dentists worldwide, including the JCCI in Switzerland, and has served as an instructor in the Ceramic Implant Program at ACIMD. He lectures nationally, publishes complex metal-free surgical cases, and serves as a Board Member of the IAOCI (International Academy of Oral Ceramic Implantology). Dr. May has recently become an Associate Fellow of the AAID (American Academy of Implant Dentistry), one of the few focusing solely on zirconia dental implants, and has been and an Accredited S.M.A.R.T. Certified member of the IAOMT for many years. He is also a Certified Biological Dentist with the IABDM, reflecting his commitment to removing root canal infections and to mercury-safe, evidence-based biological protocols.
Dr. May’s reputation, results, and excellence in ceramic implant dentistry have made him a destination provider for patients and referring clinicians seeking the highest level of ceramic implant surgery and biological dental care.
DMD, IBDM, AIAOMT, CIABDM
Associate Fellow, American Academy of Implant Dentistry
ANMCB Board Certified Naturopathic Dentist