There are more than a few alarming trends that are starting to gather steam in the area of cosmetic dentistry. For years, the talk has been about the impact of managed care and how you can position your practice in order to deal with this risk to conventional protection and fee for service dentistry. The reality is, managed care is here to stay, and its transforming speedily into any number of pretty hideous forms.
Conventionally, doctors have established managed care programs only when they have new operating time. They also have their flat fixed cost being covered by the fee for service of cosmetic dentistry.
There are some practices that have enrolled in programs some fee schedules that offer to pay more than the changeable cost associated with treatment.
The troubles for the dentist occur in three areas.
1. First would be the bad management of the care program. For example one who has a compensation schedule that really does not sufficiently compensate him for the kind of methods he generally uses and the treatment he performs. If you are a dentist and you are diagnosing a patient with four quads of root planning and you do not cover the cap...