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Originally Posted by HonestChieffan
Why does a crown have to be so damn expensive
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It's pretty labor intensive on our side. Gotta pay for the lab bill, the material, etc.
But it's getting pretty crazy how much they're getting to be honest. What sucks is that insurances haven't really upped their fees at all.
So say I'm in network with Delta dental. My crown fee is say, 1250. Delta dental will come back and say our allowed crown fee is 795, patient pays half of that, we pay half of that, you write off the rest.
Crowns cost me about 200ish bucks to do all the way around, maybe a bit more, but in the end at that fee, margins start getting a bit tight.