About us Opening hours Treatments Dental implants Emergency dentalcare Prices Loans & grants Questions plug Sitemap Lower the prices of dental care Dental care has become a class issue in Sweden and it should not be. Poor oral health means reduced quality of life for many. All parties agree that more people should have the financial opportunity to go to the Dentist, even those with low incomes. But this has not happened, as the National Audit Office has stated in a report to the Riksdag. Of the citizens, 20% refrain from going to the dentist because it is too expensive. The dental care reform that the Riksdag implemented has not led to the improvements that the Riksdag wanted. The first year that the new dental care system functioned fully was 2009. At that time, the state's allocation was SEK 7.3 billion. The Riksdag was so prepared to invest so much in dental care. Of these funds, only about SEK 5.5 billion was used. And so it has looked like in other years as well. This means that about 8 billion of the money originally allocated by the Riksdag has not been used for better dental health. How can our politicians accept it when they have ambitions for more people to have better oral health ?? The National Audit Office has examined the dental care reform and their report shows that the effects of the reform are completely contrary to the intention of the Riksdag. It has not led to more people going to the dentist, nor has it made dental care cheaper for most people. The state has prepared a guide price list (reference prices) for various dental treatments. The dentists receive payment from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency according to the guide price list. More than half of the dentists still have prices that are higher than the reference price. Dentists who have prices that are lower than the reference price do not receive the same compensation as their more expensive colleagues receive. They are not paid according to the Guide Price List, they are only reimbursed for their lower price. That's deeply unfair. Above all, patients who go to dental clinics with low prices are disadvantaged because the social insurance office gives them lower compensation for the exact same treatment. If all dentists received the same compensation for the same dental treatment, prices would be reduced and price competition would benefit. It was the Riksdag's intention when implementing the reform that competition in dentistry would increase. The National Audit Office states that “The reference price list, on the other hand, has not functioned as price pressure, on the contrary, there are signs that the reference prices are driving price developments. The review shows that when the reference prices are raised, the care providers follow suit and raise their prices. Reference prices therefore risk forming a floor in pricing. ” It is time now for the Riksdag to change the current system so that the tax money set aside for dental care is used in full so that more people can afford to go to the dentist. It is equally important that all dentists are paid equally for equal dental care. It benefits low-income patients. Mattias Santesson Founder and CEO of City Dental See the article on SvD Opinion Reference prices are anti-competitive I en rapport (RiR 2012:12) från Riksrevisionsverket den 23 maj 2012, granskade statens referenspriser för tandvård och hur det har fungerat sedan de infördes 2008. Där står att referensprislistan inte sänkt priserna som planerat, utan istället driver på prisutvecklingen. Rapporten visar att när referenspriserna höjs, höjer även tandläkarmottagningarna sina priser. Referenspriserna riskerar därför att motverka låg prissättning. Det nuvarande systemet missgynnar tandvårdskliniker vars priser ligger under referenspriset. Enligt Riksrevisionsverket har referensprissystemet lett till att nästintill alla tandläkares priser ligger på referenspriset eller över. Ytterst få tandkliniker har priser som ligger under referenspriset. Det var inte syftet med tandvårdsreformen. De kliniker som erbjuder ett lägre pris än referenspriset ersätts endast med det lägre priset av Försäkringskassan, inte referenspriset. Samma vårdåtgärd ersätts med olika pris. Ett exempel på detta kan vara: Klinik A är betydligt dyrare än Klinik B, cirka 7 000 kronor/behandling, men Klinik A:s behandling berättigas patientersättning från Försäkringskassan. Trots att Klinik B är betydligt billigare, tjänar patienten alltså bara 1 700 kronor på att gå dit. Hade däremot Försäkringskassan betalat ut ersättning oavsett klinik, hade patienten tjänat nära 7000 kronor på att välja den billigare kliniken. Referenspriset blir alltså en konkurrensnackdel för de kliniker som har ett lägre pris än referenspriset och så fungerade det inte före reformen då alla tandläkare fick samma ersättning för samma åtgärd. Detta är inte konkurrensneutralt och missgynnar de patienter vars kliniker ligger under referenspriset. Patienterna får därför betala ett högre pris än om alla kliniker skulle få samma ersättning för samma tandvårdsåtgärder. Hem Press & Nyheter ÖPPETTIDER Måndag - fredag: 07:30 - 21:00 - Lördag: 09:00 - 17:00 - Söndag: 10:30 - 16:30 BOKA TID GENOM ATT RINGA 08 - 20 06 80 ELLER BOKA ONLINE Drottninggatan 27, Box 161 56, 103 24 STOCKHOLM. Närmsta tunnelbaneuppgång är T-Centralen uppgång Sergels Torg. Klicka för karta Web from Devello © 2018 City Dental