Board Sets 2017 NADP Dues

MonthlyByte     June 2016   Board Sets 2017 NADP Dues Over this last decade, NADP has grown from representing 70% of the dental benefits market to more than 90%…

A Hard Needle to Thread—Adding an Adult Dental Essential Health Benefit

…the Adult Dental Benefit: Adding adult dental to the benchmark plan must either raise the cost of the benchmark plan or be offset by reducing medical benefits. While dental services…

Oral & Overall Health – DIABETES

…to a dentist or dental clinic for problems during pregnancy was associated with decreased odds of having gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Journal of the American Dental Association…

Member Interest Groups (MIGS)

…annual report is due to the NADP Director of Membership on the same schedule as NADP volunteer groups.Failure to submit the report could result in the disbandment of the MIG….

NADP On The Move

…and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation of supplemental benefit utilization; the pressure on “second tier” dental benefits; the application of flex-cards to dental benefits; and new Medicare Advantage reporting requirements for…

Allow the Independent Purchase of Qualified Dental Plans on Healthcare.gov

…Dental Plans in the ACA marketplaces. Despite participation from a stable set of reputable plans, dental plan enrollment is only a little more than three million. The Kaiser Family Foundation…

Adult Dental EHB – A Good Idea, but Watch the Jenga Tower

…supports providing the richest dental benefits possible, but a rich benchmark plan will negatively impact affordability. Millions of Americans and small businesses select dental plans with less generous benefits because…

Chair’s Corner – Dec 2016

…and improve our ability to succeed in the dental benefits market through the annual statistical reports on enrollment, networks, premiums and an array of operational metrics. NADP also provided valuable…

About Dental Plans & Care

Featured content Why Dental? The value of dental benefits and maintaining oral health. Learn More Understanding Dental Benefits Who has dental benefits today? What are the different dental benefit products…

STI 2015 Highlights

…Dental Service Organizations (DSOs), finishing and publishing the update to the NADP Dental Plan Accreditation Standard (DPAS) and expanding the current Dental Provider Credentialing pilot from phase I to phase…