capitation barter system and encounter Foldable Toothbrush and we're going to talk a little bit about each one of those so fee-for-service is basically a fee scale that's developed for all services provided by.
the dental provider most of the time you'll find this in some big Foldable Toothbrush notebooks somewhere in the dental practice it shows usually a whatever the dentist fee is for every single service item then we'll talk a little bit about those service items.
and the codes that belong to those as well so this is the most common type of payment method in the United States that would be important for you to remember and these fees are not just numbers.
that the dentists randomly like pulls out of their head and puts down on a piece of paper these fees come from what we call usual customary and reasonable fees and that's also said symbolizes.
BCR these are set fees and they're an average fee per service of basically what everyone else is charging in the immediate region these fees are paid for by the patient we're private insurance and it's though.
t that fee for service increases production and when we talk about increasing production it's basically the more work you do the more you get paid for it so capitation is where the dental provider contracts with a program and the provider completes the services to the subscribers.
whoever has subscribed to that program in return for a payment on a per capita basis and that just means that they get a fixed amount every time it doesn't it's just a monthly payment that gets paid to the dentist it doesn't matter how many of these subscribers they see each month they always receive the same