Index

Dental services PPI

FRED PCU621210621210

Index

Dental equipment PPI

FRED PCU339114339114

Census

Establishment density

Census NAICS 621210

Empty state

Public deal tape

Not published here

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Dental services PPI: how this desk reads FRED PCU621210621210

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This desk treats FRED PCU621210621210 as a cost-of-service background series, not a tape. FRED publishes it as Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Dentists. The originating statistical agency on that page is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The identifier is the one this site actually fetches for the Dental PPI pane on Desk.

How we read a print: it is a monthly, not-seasonally-adjusted index (FRED’s units are Index Jun 2010=100). It is not a dollar fee, not a CDT line item, and not a same-day last look. The chart on Desk draws only the observations the public Worker returns. If the Worker is quiet, we show a gap — we do not invent a last print or a day-over-day delta.

What we will not do with this series:

  • treat an index point as a practice asking price
  • treat it as a DSO bid or a reimbursement schedule
  • mint a “fair multiple” from PPI
  • mix it with dental equipment PPI as if they shared an industry or a base period

The sibling equipment series is a different NAICS industry and lives at its own URL. Density — establishment counts for Offices of Dentists — is a Census read, not a price index. For the high-level map of what this repo will not commit, see Data.