{"id":91,"date":"2013-07-12T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpress.journalism.ryerson.ca\/workshop\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:59:49","slug":"2013-increases-to-dental-fee-guides-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"2013 increases to dental fee guides announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/general_dentistry.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92 alignleft\" alt=\"general_dentistry\" src=\"http:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/general_dentistry-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/general_dentistry-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/general_dentistry-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/general_dentistry.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s a new year now and that means an update to the provincial dental fee guides. These guides are a reference of suggested fees for dental services, updated annually by each province\u2019s dental association and used to help set rates for both dental practitioners and employer-sponsored benefits plans.<\/p>\n<p>While these guides offer suggested rates, it\u2019s important to note that there is no set rule that dentists and benefits plans must follow them; rather, the fee guides are meant to provide a helpful guideline. A dentist may set his or her own fees based on a variety of factors, from business costs to the particular needs of his or her patients.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, benefits plan sponsors will use the guides to determine suggested rates, but in some cases may be using past issues of the guide and\/or may adjust the reimbursement amount based on factors such as employees\u2019 usage of the plan or the company\u2019s current financial situation.<\/p>\n<p>However, even though the suggested rates in the dental fee guides are not mandatory, they do offer a useful baseline for benefits plan sponsors and insurance carriers to use when determining how much they will cover for dental services.<\/p>\n<p>The provinces have each released their suggested guide rates for 2013. Here are the average increases for each province:<\/p>\n<p>Alberta \u2013 3.74%<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia \u2013 2.4%<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba \u2013 3.2%<\/p>\n<p>New Brunswick \u2013 2%<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador \u2013 5%<\/p>\n<p>Nova Scotia \u2013 2.63%<\/p>\n<p>Ontario \u2013 2.14%<\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Island \u2013 2.73%<\/p>\n<p>Quebec \u2013 3.1%<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan \u2013 4.17%<\/p>\n<p>Note that rates have not yet been published for the territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a new year now and that means an update to the provincial dental fee guides. These guides are a reference of suggested fees for dental services, updated annually by each province\u2019s dental association and used to help set rates for both dental practitioners and employer-sponsored benefits plans. While these guides offer suggested rates, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporatebenefits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}