Adult capped dental payment model applied within a university setting: an Australian reflective case study.

Background: Capitation models of care in dentistry started around 1973 with varying degrees of success in meeting the needs of the individuals and expectations of the participating private practitioners. These studies mostly identified that capitation payments resulted in under treatment whilst fee-for-service models often led to over treatment. The objective of this study was to develop a new way of doing business using an outsourcing capitation model of care to meet population health needs and activity-based funding requirements of rural Local Health Districts with a local university dental school.

A population-based cost description study of oral treatment of hospitalized Western Australian children aged younger than 15 years.

Objectives: We sought to analyze the economic cost of a decade of dental hospital admissions in Western Australian children under the age of 15 years and to identify socio-demographic characteristics associated with these costs.

Methods: This study analyzed the cost of 43,937 child patients under the age of 15 years hospitalized for an oral health-related condition, as determined by principal diagnosis International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10AM). The Australian Refine Diagnosis Related Group version 5.