Yep. My wife and I own a dental practice and it's true. In order for the Healthfirst patient to be able to use their dental benefit, the dentist now has to accept a terrible fee-schedule from Healthfirst and be deemed "in network". Healthfirst is making no allowance for seeing an "out of network" provider. The end result is that if the dentist is good enough to be busy, there is no way they are going to accept such terrible reimbursement for their services. My wife is good enough to be busy, so luckily we did not have to accept the fee schedule, however the downside is that some patients do leave. In conclusion some there are some things in life you don't want to "get a good deal on" (tattoos for example). Our healthcare system would be truly transformed if people had more skin in the game and could better understand the concept that "you get what you pay for"!

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