Pricing in commercial dental insurance and provider markets.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of commercial dental insurer and provider concentration on dentist reimbursement.

Data sources

We utilized provider data from the American Dental Association, reimbursement data from IBM Watson MarketScan^® Commercial Research Databases, submitted billed charges from FAIR Health^® , dental insurance market concentration data from FAIR Health^® , and county-level demographic and economic data from the Area Health Resources File and the Council for Community and Economic Research.

Study design

We used the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to separately measure commercial dental insurance concentration and dentist concentration. We studied the effect of provider and insurance concentration on dentist reimbursement. U

SUBMITTER: Nasseh K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7839642 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature