Dental fee schedules 1 article

Dental fee schedules are structured lists or payment rules that assign prices, allowances or reimbursement values to defined dental procedures and services. They may be used by public programmes, private insurers, managed-care arrangements or practices themselves, often in conjunction with procedure codes and contractual terms. A fee schedule influences how treatment is priced or reimbursed but does not determine whether a procedure is clinically necessary for an individual patient. Its meaning depends on the payer or system applying the schedule.