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Outsourcing Concerns- FDA Regulations-ADA Regulati
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<blockquote data-quote="rshark" data-source="post: 64922" data-attributes="member: 5419"><p>Works that way in South Africa, and some countries in Europe. What about choice though? If a patient is given the choice of say paying a $500 per crown fee for my crown or $170 for the Chinese cheapy, which do you think they are going to choose. Oops just realised we are going off topic here. Or maybe not? If our aggrieved VTDave was given a choice of which lab the case was sent to, then he would have the opportunity of asking the lab what his crown was made of. If the lab can then charge the Patient directly, and charge according to the amount of superfluous questions they have to answer, then case could be billed according to the BS factor.</p><p></p><p>Dentists here hate the idea of separate bills because then they can't hide the real fee they charge. I've seen it so many times, the patient comes in to see me for a shade and somehow thinks that I'm getting a huge fee for my work out of the dentist bill for say $1800. Occasionally the patient will cajole me into telling him/or her what my fee actually is and most time they are outraged at what the dentist is making for what is, at most 1 - 11/2 hour s work. Perhaps separate bills would engender more transparency in practice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rshark, post: 64922, member: 5419"] Works that way in South Africa, and some countries in Europe. What about choice though? If a patient is given the choice of say paying a $500 per crown fee for my crown or $170 for the Chinese cheapy, which do you think they are going to choose. Oops just realised we are going off topic here. Or maybe not? If our aggrieved VTDave was given a choice of which lab the case was sent to, then he would have the opportunity of asking the lab what his crown was made of. If the lab can then charge the Patient directly, and charge according to the amount of superfluous questions they have to answer, then case could be billed according to the BS factor. Dentists here hate the idea of separate bills because then they can't hide the real fee they charge. I've seen it so many times, the patient comes in to see me for a shade and somehow thinks that I'm getting a huge fee for my work out of the dentist bill for say $1800. Occasionally the patient will cajole me into telling him/or her what my fee actually is and most time they are outraged at what the dentist is making for what is, at most 1 - 11/2 hour s work. Perhaps separate bills would engender more transparency in practice. [/QUOTE]
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