Private Dental insurance(Dentaquest) through medicaid(Soonercare) denied 2 claims from my previous cleaning. Worried I have no shot at an appeal.

So in Oklahoma, Soonercare switched to private insurance companies for both dental and medical. I am on Dentaquest. I went in for a cleaning a few weeks ago and didn't think anything of it, the past year and a half or so that I've had Soonercare I would schedule a cleaning and never owed anymore than my co-pay. This time I chose a new dentist and scheduled a cleaning. Today I got a letter from Dentaquest saying they denied two claims nearing almost two hundred dollars, which is a lot of money to me atm.

The new dentist did some x-rays that I assumed were part of the cleaning but turns out they are only covered once every 3 years with soonercare. I didn't think anything of the x-rays as they are done often during cleanings in my experience.

I assume I'll get a bill from the dentist soon enough and I'm hesitant to call and see what I owe in chances of it speeding up the process and I'm not doing well financially at the moment. Since it is technically my fault for not making sure every single thing the dentist did was covered currently by my insurance, am I pretty much stuck with the bill? I'm still going to appeal just in case it works but it's really stressing me out, it's not a good time of my life to have this happen even though I feel ridiculous having such stress over 200 bucks.

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