Dentist and health agreements: what is the difference between direct and indirect agreement?

15 Jan 2023 | The study

People can take advantage of the Health care agreements with medical and dental offices Whether the latter have entered into a contract (called a "convention") with one or more health funds.

Depending on How the mode of reimbursement of the cost of the service is done, the convention can be direct or indirect.

La direct agreement provides for it to be The health fund to pay the medical/dental practice directly for the service rendered (in full or in part, depending on the agreement entered into).

If the convention is indirect, instead, the patient pays for the service received out of his own pocket and only later on health fund reimburses it (again in whole or in part, depending on the contract).

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[Medical Director: Dr. Mauro Savio, Member of the Dentists Register Provincial Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Milan n. 4168].

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