battle scars

Jun. 21st, 2004 at 11:12 AM

I have a dentist appointment tomorrow at 8 am to fix my tooth. I called my work and found that I have insurance with regence blueshield, so using that site I found a dentist in the u-district that I can use. What I really need to do now is find my insurance card. If I can't find it, I'm going to see if there is anything at work that will help with showing i'm covered.

My lip is still swollen as well. Cutting open one's lip hurts quite a bit.

I SHOULD DO THIS MORE OFTEN

Current Mood: sore
Current Music:Sondre Lerche - Sleep on Needles

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Jun. 21st, 2004 05:06 pm (UTC)

Insurance is the shit. Take advantage of it whenever possible. I was getting some great free massages for a while, heh.

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patrick

Jun. 22nd, 2004 09:36 am (UTC)

I got to the office and found that the insurance will pay 100% of normal cleaning checkups for up to $1200 a year! That's a lot of dentist checkups.

I'm going to take advantage of that so I set up an appointment for next month to get a cleaning.

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Jun. 22nd, 2004 06:35 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I get cleanings every six months. Your insurance company *wants* you to do preventative health things, so you don't get more sick and end up making larger claims later. It's one of the best things about working for a real company, and you should totally work it as much as possible.

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elsnaibs

Jun. 22nd, 2004 09:37 am (UTC)

If Regence has a website where you can check claim staus and stuff, you might be able to print of a copy of your card or a form that's called "Instant Elligibility" or "Proof of Coverage" right from the site. I would call Regence to see if they can point you to that.

/insurance ramble

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patrick

Jun. 22nd, 2004 09:41 am (UTC)

I never found a place on the website where you could print a new card or something, but you can order a new card from them on there.

I got all my insurance info from work yesterday. All I really needed was the group number, the group name and my ssn and a phone number for regence so the dentist office could call and confirm that I'm covered.

It worked out just fine.

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