– Dentists in Mendoza implement new payment system for patients with social work and prepaid – Dentists in Mendoza charge a promise to patients with social work and prepaid – Rising costs force dentists in Mendoza to charge a promise to patients with social work and prepaid – Economic situation leads dentists in Mendoza to implement new payment structure for patients with social work and prepaid

2023-09-06 00:01:03

This Tuesday the professionals gathered within the group dentists Autoconvocados de Mendoza announced that – from the date – they will begin to charge a I promise between $2,000 and $3,500 per visit (plus payment for some medical practices) to patients with social work and/or prepaid, following the line of the measure announced a few days ago by the doctors.

Through a statement, they justified this measure due to the economic situation in the country and the “high cost of our inputs that are quoted at dollar value and are increasingly scarce.”

Ariadna Garcia, member of dentists Self-summoned, he explained in MDZ Radio that “from today, due to the problem with the social works and the prepaid ones, the collection of a I promise so that professionals can continue to carry out treatments and continue to respond despite the situation”.

“Includes all dentists who are within the Mendoza Dental Circle. Meetings are being held to see what solution we can give to the problem of inputs and others,” García acknowledged in Depending on how you look at it.

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“Las social works they pay us quite low values ​​with respect to the inflation that we have every month; They do not give us an exact value of the supplies, if you go from one week to the next you already have an increase, it is quite difficult to give a price to the patient”, he remarked and insisted: “The supplies we use are expensive, they are imported. We ask that the value of the social works and that they pay us per month, the first days”.

Regarding this issue, he explained that “there are social works that pay in 60 days and others in 90 days or more. We ask for a regularization in that part or we are going to have to start charging coinsurance to patients to arrive at the value of the benefits”.

“The Círculo Odontológico has given us tariffs that are the ‘ideals’ for this month. What we are doing is charging the patient a I promise to reach that ideal value, it depends on what you pay each social work”, he detailed. In any case, she affirmed that “every time there are fewer professionals who receive social works” and that the situation is “unsustainable. Impossible not to charge a I promise”.

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