Five Regional Dental Organizations First in Nation to Publicly Report Quality Indicators

…Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) members became the first dental practices in the country to publicly report oral health quality measures to the WCHQ reporting website, WCHQ.org. The five…

McConeghey

…recognized resource of the dental benefits industry.” NADP is the only national trade organization that includes the full spectrum of dental benefits companies operating in the United States. NADP members…

The Quest for the Holy Grail: Integrating (or Aligning) Dental and Medical

…and dental providers with the overall health needs of the individual. Whatever the benefits, aligning dental and medical is difficult. For a variety of historical and operational reasons, dental and…

NADP Pulse – May 2022

…policy perspectives that are mutually beneficial for plans and providers, including independent purchase of dental benefits on federal marketplaces and expansion of adult dental benefits in Medicaid and Medicare. The…

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%…

Oral & Overall Health – CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

…for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Reports a significant association between dental caries and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Stroke 2020   Periodontitis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: consensus report of the Joint EFP/AAP Workshop on…

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…

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…

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…

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…