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title: "What Is Net production? Dental Practice Glossary"
description: "Net production, also called adjusted or billable production, is the amount a practice is allowed to collect after payer contracts, discounts and adjustments..."
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Practice management

# Net production

Net production, also called adjusted or billable production, is the amount a practice is allowed to collect after payer contracts, discounts and adjustments reduce its gross billed fees.

Net production starts with [gross production](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/gross-production) and removes amounts the practice has agreed not to collect. The ADA describes adjusted, or billable, production as the amount the office is contractually allowed to collect for a procedure, typically set by third-party payors. Its practice finance page uses almost the same idea: what you produce after third-party discounts. Net production is the better base for judging [collections](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/collections) because it leaves out fees the practice cannot collect under its contracts. Some reports use other names for the same number, so owners should confirm what a report counts before comparing it with another practice or with a [benchmark](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/benchmark).

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## Related terms

-   [Gross production](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/gross-production)
-   [Production](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/production)
-   [Collections](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/collections)
-   [Collection ratio](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/collection-ratio)

## Sources

1.  [ADA, Dentist compensation: what every dental associate should know](https://www.ada.org/resources/careers/dentist-compensation)
2.  [ADA, How to purchase with confidence](https://www.ada.org/resources/careers/career-planning/how-to-purchase-with-confidence)

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