Luís Filipe Correia

Dental medicine is an activity with inherent costs, for which a payment of fees is due. That is, an honorable payment made by the patient to the dentist for providing the best possible oral health care.

These fees can be set freely, but according to the complexity, difficulty, differentiation and time spent on the dental medical procedure.
Insurance, health plans and conventions are business models found by the various players that enter the health business and whose main objective is to lower the costs of dental treatments for their recipients and increase the number of users and treatments to be provided by dentists.

We are facing the contractualization and commercialization of a business model by companies with free and informed acceptance by many dentists. Who should then assess the quality of the treatments provided? Who should assess the economic in-come this brings to service providers? Who should regulate and inspect whether clinics comply with minimum levels of hygiene and health care?

Lecturer of the session “On Our Agenda” with the title “Can health plans, insurances and conventions ensure the best interest of the patient?”.