To honor dental month, here is a claim example using the Embrace Pet Insurance Dental Rewards coverage.
The claim is for Hazel, a 7 year old Beagle living in Austin, TX who needed 11 simple and 4 complex tooth extractions along with her teeth cleaning.
| DATE | ITEM | BILLED AMOUNT | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Dental Cleaning | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Exam | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Diazepam Injection | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Ketaved Injection | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Diagnostic Profile | $64.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Catheter & Fluids | $35.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Dental Cleaning | $96.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Anesthesia Time | $155.25 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Dental Extraction | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Simple Dental Extraction | ||||
| 9/20/2010 | Grade A x 11 | $55.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Complex Dental Extraction | ||||
| 9/20/2010 | Grade A x 2 | $70.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Grade C x 2 | $150.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | OraVet | $15.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Flocillin Injection | $0.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Buprenorphine HCl Injection | $22.00 | |||
| 9/20/2010 | Tramadol x 10 | $8.50 | |||
| Total | $670.75 | ||||
That's a lot of teeth removed.
Hazel's Dental Rewards coverage helped pay for the procedure by paying out $400 for the year and costing $28.95 a month ($347.40 a year). If she'd paid her premiums up front for the whole year, the coverage would have cost $399, saving her $101 for the surgery.
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