BSEP STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔waiver of copayment--overbilling
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔overbilling--unethical to increase a fee to a pt solely cuz the pt has a
dental benefits plan
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔fee differential--fee for pt w/out dt benefits---consider a dt full fee.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔treatment dates--claims must show it corectly
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔Dt procedures--incorrect description to receive greater payment.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔unnecessary svcs
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔disclosure of COI--disclose to pts if promoting or endorsinga certain
company product
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔devices and therapeutic methods--prescribe, dispense or promote only
devices/agents/methods whose complete formulae are available
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔report adverse reactions
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔marketing or sale of products or procedures--can't promote or employ
procedures for Dts own financial gain.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔professional announcement-- represent in a manner that contributes to
esteem of profession.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔published communications--disclose source and authorship
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔examples of false or misleading---omit facts, unjustified expectation,
objective representation, subjective statements
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔unearned, nonhealth degrees--unethical to advertise/announce
unearned academic degrees
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔referral svcs--dt is not usually allowed to make payments for another
entity for referral of pt for prof svcs.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔infectious disease test result---don't create a false impression
, ✔✔Veracity - ✔✔name of practice---dt name can't stay for more than 1 yr after he/she
leaves
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔announcement of specialization
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔dual degreed dts
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔specialist announcement of credentials in a non-specialty interest
area---don't do it.
✔✔Negative rights - ✔✔a right NOT to be subjected to an action of another person or
group; _____ permit or oblige INaction
✔✔Positive rights - ✔✔a right to be subjected to an action or another
person or group; ______ permit or oblige ACTION
✔✔Ozar's Central Values (In order) - ✔✔o Patient's Life & general health: Overall
Health
o The patient's Oral Health:
o The patient's autonomy
o The dentist's preferred practice patterns
o Esthetic values
o Efficiency in the use of resources:
✔✔Guild Model: - ✔✔Relationship based on dentist's expertise and the patient's lack of
it
Patient does not make any contribution to dental decisions
Dentist is the judge of the patient's needs
✔✔Agent Model - ✔✔All dental decisions made by patient
Dentist provides service for patient choices
Not much basis in reality
✔✔Commercial Model - ✔✔Dentist has something to sell; patient may or may not want
to buy it
Standard "market place" principles apply
Patient's need for care is not the direct determinant of the dentist's actions
Dentist and patient on equal ground
✔✔Interactive Model: - ✔✔Dentist and patient are equal partners
Preservation and maximization of patient autonomy
Dentist enhances patient's decision making capacity
Dentist contributes expertise into the decision-making process
✔✔ Patient Autonomy - ✔✔self governance
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔waiver of copayment--overbilling
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔overbilling--unethical to increase a fee to a pt solely cuz the pt has a
dental benefits plan
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔fee differential--fee for pt w/out dt benefits---consider a dt full fee.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔treatment dates--claims must show it corectly
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔Dt procedures--incorrect description to receive greater payment.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔unnecessary svcs
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔disclosure of COI--disclose to pts if promoting or endorsinga certain
company product
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔devices and therapeutic methods--prescribe, dispense or promote only
devices/agents/methods whose complete formulae are available
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔report adverse reactions
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔marketing or sale of products or procedures--can't promote or employ
procedures for Dts own financial gain.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔professional announcement-- represent in a manner that contributes to
esteem of profession.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔published communications--disclose source and authorship
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔examples of false or misleading---omit facts, unjustified expectation,
objective representation, subjective statements
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔unearned, nonhealth degrees--unethical to advertise/announce
unearned academic degrees
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔referral svcs--dt is not usually allowed to make payments for another
entity for referral of pt for prof svcs.
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔infectious disease test result---don't create a false impression
, ✔✔Veracity - ✔✔name of practice---dt name can't stay for more than 1 yr after he/she
leaves
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔announcement of specialization
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔dual degreed dts
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔specialist announcement of credentials in a non-specialty interest
area---don't do it.
✔✔Negative rights - ✔✔a right NOT to be subjected to an action of another person or
group; _____ permit or oblige INaction
✔✔Positive rights - ✔✔a right to be subjected to an action or another
person or group; ______ permit or oblige ACTION
✔✔Ozar's Central Values (In order) - ✔✔o Patient's Life & general health: Overall
Health
o The patient's Oral Health:
o The patient's autonomy
o The dentist's preferred practice patterns
o Esthetic values
o Efficiency in the use of resources:
✔✔Guild Model: - ✔✔Relationship based on dentist's expertise and the patient's lack of
it
Patient does not make any contribution to dental decisions
Dentist is the judge of the patient's needs
✔✔Agent Model - ✔✔All dental decisions made by patient
Dentist provides service for patient choices
Not much basis in reality
✔✔Commercial Model - ✔✔Dentist has something to sell; patient may or may not want
to buy it
Standard "market place" principles apply
Patient's need for care is not the direct determinant of the dentist's actions
Dentist and patient on equal ground
✔✔Interactive Model: - ✔✔Dentist and patient are equal partners
Preservation and maximization of patient autonomy
Dentist enhances patient's decision making capacity
Dentist contributes expertise into the decision-making process
✔✔ Patient Autonomy - ✔✔self governance
