What is managed healthcare?
Managed healthcare (reduced-fee dental plans) is a low-cost way for employers to provide their employees with dental benefits. Services are provided for patients by practitioners who are enrolled in a managed care network which has the ability to restrict fees and ration care. Unfortunately, these decisions may be made in the interest of the managed care provider’s bottom line rather than the best interest of the patient. This does, however, translate into lower premiums for the employer, which makes this form of dental reimbursement increasingly attractive to employers. Some policies are written so that the employees can choose to continue to receive care from their private sector dentists, but only at the expense of higher deductibles and greater out of pocket expenses. This means that in order for the employees to continue to receive the same quality of care they have been accustomed to, they must now assume greater financial responsibility for that care. What are we doing to help?
