Re: Why dentists charge differently for different patients for the same procedure?


abc wrote:
As Steve has already pointed out, the office overhead in dentistry can
be as high as 75% or even 80%,


Are hospitals really that lacking in patients? Most seem pretty busy so
I'm not sure how an insurance companies guarantee to deliver patients
would boost income (at a lower cost per patient). Maybe it's more
psychological in that they are scared they will lose patients if they
don't follow the insuance plan. In that case you could say the
insurance companies are really blackmailing the hospitals at
the expense of the unisured patients.

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