I’m really hoping someone who works in medical billing at a dentist office can help me understand this. For context, I have Cigna Dental PPO. I had an oral consultation today that cost $167. The oral surgeon said I definitely need the bottom ones removed, but said she isn’t worried about the top ones. Then here is an image of what I was quoted after. They said I would either be paying $5809 or $3789 depending on what my insurance says. She didn’t sound confident in what she was saying and was speaking to someone else prior. Then, they tried to make me schedule it with 50% down as if I have $1800-2900 just laying around. I could barely afford the consultation fee. I’m I being got or is this how much people are paying to get their wisdom teeth removed? I’m so lost…

Hi all, I'm leaving my current job and I have another position that pays higher than where I'm at right now, but no employee health plan. I'm in CA. Right now I'm looking at marketplace plans for my spouse (33M) and I (31F). We don't use much when it comes to health care. A few random visits here and there, I take a few daily mental health meds but that's it. However, we do want to start a family in the next year so I'm trying to keep that in mind. I've always been on an employer PPO, so that's what I'm used to. My top options currently are Blue Shield of CA PPO, or Kaiser Gold HMO. From what I've seen blue shield is one of the few companies that will offer PPO on the marketplace. I've looked at some of the cheaper plans through multiple companies but since most of them have coinsurance, I worry I could rack up quite a bit if I were to get pregnant/deliver. We earn too much to qualify for financial help/ACA plans as well. Here's my question - how much does Kaiser's HMO plans differ from their PPO? Is it really a big difference since it's all in one system? I know there are issues with Kaiser and it seems people either love it or hate it. But it seems like their HMO plan is cheaper with better coverage (particularly for maternity) than a similar PPO through blue shield. Anything I'm missing here? Any advise or prior experiences would be helpful.

Location: Southern California, USA My roommate and I had a year fixed lease in a 2b/2b, ending summer 2025. A month ago I discovered a leak coming from the wall in my closet. Landlord brought plumbers to check it out, they opened the wall a bit and discovered cracked pipes. The next week I was asked to leave for 2 weeks for repairs, in which I used renters insurance to cover my hotel (waiting on reimbursement still, but it should be coming). After the 2 weeks, landlord couldn’t get a response from HOA on when the repair would be completed. Landlord suggested I break my lease and move since she wasn’t sure about the timeline (pipes only impacted my room, not my roommates). While trying to figure out my plans, she sent my roommate and I a text on Friday (3/28) afternoon that she is terminating our lease due to mold, and we need to be out by Wednesday (4/2) or sooner - she offered to reimburse March rent and give us $600 each for the inconvenience. Any advice on 1) is she allowed to do this and 2) how we can get more money or time? 2 business days is such short notice to make arrangements and the cost to move will be more than $600 TLDR: landlord terminated lease due to mold, have to be out in 2 business days. I haven’t been able to live there for all of March

Has anyone filed a life insurance claim through Aflac? How long did it take them to process and pay out? My father recently passed away. We filed our claim, they said part of a page was missing, so I refaxed the claim form again. They are slightly difficult to receive info from, and curious if anyone has a timeline of their policy payout.

Not sure if this is allowed, but here goes: My employer retirement $ is with Empower, and 100% of it in a **T Rowe Price 2025** fund. I'll only be working for them for 5 years tops, and this $ will not be a big factor in retirement. This TRP 2025 has done great, barely lost anything at all. *Most* of our $ is with Ed Jones, and one of the funds they have me in is **TRP Large Cap Growth** fund. This fund is not doing as well as the 2025. It may be important to know that I am not contributing anything new to Ed Jones, this $ is growing / declining as funds do. They have me in a ratio of growth / stability appropriate for my age (62, want to retire at 65). I asked the Ed Jones, guy, "The TRP 2025 is doing great, the Large Cap Growth is not doing as well, is there a compelling reason to NOT to move from the Large Cap and into the 2025?" Ed Jones guy answers with "The market goes up and down, don't watch the news so much, we're re-investing dividends and buying low. Dips happen and then we recover..." or words to that effect. ***It's like he didn't answer my question, I know the market goes up / down, I'm not saying "sell everything" in a panic. SO, is he just dodging my question for some reason? Are there valid reasons to NOT switch from one TRP fund to another?***

Well, I guess im late to finding out my coverage dropped from 90% to 50% i had been doing claims due to my dog having multiple TPLO surgeries and find out ny nost recent one only got covered 50%. Pretty annoyed. My dog is 8 and already is through most of the surgeries but does have a neurological issue. Im looking to get a new policy somewhere and would love recommendations.

Hello, I'm new to having car insurance, when I enrolled progressive the asked me to enroll in snapshot to get "an special discount" after signing up and realizing the app had to run always on the background I deactivated it. The thing is I've been getting emails from them saying reactivate it to keep your discount. Is it really worth it to have it activated? I've seen some people saying their rate actually went up by having it on.

I filed a renters theft claim through Allstate in September 2024. Our adjuster calls a couple of days later going over the process and the next steps. We’ve submitted the police report, receipts and a ton of pics. A different person who works with our adjuster calls and has us resubmit everything about 3 more times. We’re now 6 months into this claim and have heard from our adjuster other than that one time when they first called. The other woman, we haven’t heard from her since January. We have been trying to get ahold of both for months. I finally get a call last week saying they have everything they need and that our adjuster would call that same day. I got really excited hoping this nightmare with them was going to finally come to an end. Here we are a week later and not a word from either of them and now I’m pissed. I have been cordial this whole time and now I’m at the highest level of pissivity. At this point I’m losing my mind because why is this taking 6 months? Why is there no update? Why can’t I get and update or get ahold of my adjuster? Customer service refused to let me speak to the adjusters supervisor. What else can I do at this point?

Hi everyone I posted here a few weeks ago with issues regarding Fetch Pet Insurance (formerly Pet Plan) and I have just had an absolutely awful experience with them regarding my dog’s recent knee surgery Basically, they are rolling out a “prescription sub-limit” on all of the policies they can and using that to cap any and all medical expenses as they relate to medications at 1,500 dollars. This includes any medications administered by a veterinarian and as I’ve been made aware, it includes medically necessary surgical anesthetic medications. During my enrollment call and upon reviewing my application of benefits, I was only made aware of the coverage I purchased. 10,000 dollars reimbursement, 80% reimbursement rate, and a 500 dollar deductible. There is no language on my application that indicates a sublimit. I just got off of a call with a supervisor reviewing my claim review and also my issue with this sublimit (as it was not reviewed with me in my enrollment call like it legally should have been per my enrollment application) The gist of the call was that “we can’t go over the whole policy” and that “we’re sorry you feel that way” even though the language of the application states in the agreement section that “I have been advised and have had the various other coverages and limits available to me under this policy fully explained. It is my decision to purchase the Coverages and limits set forth herein” All in all, if you plan to purchase pet insurance out of fear of surgical needs or expect for your coverage to be that which you go over in your enrollment calls, do not go with Fetch Pet. They are deceitful and intentionally vague in their policy documents and apply sub-limits without disclosing them to their plan purchasers. Thankfully, Fetch has still lost money on my dog due to the expensive nature of her surgery. But I will be looking at all my options when enrollment time comes around and consider switching because this company is unprofessional and blatantly lying to their customers. Now I have hit the sub-limit after one surgery and if my dog were to need another surgery this year according to Fetch I am SOL. If anyone has enrolled in Fetch this year or last year, please review your policy documents and let me know if they applied a sublimit to your policy (and whether or not the enrollment agent informed you of that sublimit)

Hi Few years ago I had Vodafone broadband which was absolute shite, i had numerous engineers out to try fix the issue but they didn't fix it so I decided to cancel the direct debit and go elsewhere. I've been paying the amount back to BPO on a payment plan which isn't long off done ive made my own payment notes as I don't trust these people. Today I've opened a letter from BPO who say Vodafone has passed them the debt and I need to contact them to make repayments, the amount is also higher to what I had left What annoys me I've been paying these clowns for over 11 months and after checking my standing orders it shows it's still set up and is being paid every month the reference number is the same on my standing order to what's on the letter today What do I do ignore them or email them ? Location: UK