A Latino family was stunned to learned that while making a dental appointment with Advanced Dental in West Allis, its office manager told the family that they don't accept illegals without a Social Security due to an office policy without asking, if a cash payment would be made for services.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
August 27, 2019
Milwaukee, WI - Last week on August 19, 2019, a Latino family from the Southside of Milwaukee says that when they called to make a dental appointment for family members, they were asked if they had insurance, which the mother said yes, but that her husband who doesn't have a Social Security number would be requiring dental services as well. The office manager named Nancy Martin at Advanced Dental told the mother on the phone that they don't accept patients without a Social Security number, which she identified as illegals because they would have and issue, without actually asking if the husband would be paying cash. Apparently, the husband would be paying in cash for the dental services rendered at the clinic.
The mother got so upset and told her that she would be talking to the dentist about what she had just said and practice not to accept illegals. When paying cash, a patient doesn't need to provide a Social Security number when getting dental service.
The dentist from Advanced Dental at the 6300 block of W. Greenfield Ave. called the mother back and assured that his staff manager would be punished and consequences would be applied, but he never discussed what measures would be taken against his staff office manager to resolve such unfortunate incident.
The dentist did say that everyone was welcome and apologized for the incident.
The Advanced Dental incident was aired on Saturday morning in the Rivera's Western Wear Radio Show in La GranD 104.7 FM in West Allis. La GranD has a large Spanish Speaking audience in Southeastern Wisconsin.
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