HCPro.com: Managed Dental Care

This monthly newsletter features 12 pages of business news and analysis on matters affecting every dental payer, provider, supplier, and DPM in the country.

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August 2008 (Volume 13, Issue 8)	view entire issue

Gummed up?
Writer Elbert Hubbard grumbled more than a century ago that the United States would never be a civilized country until it spent more on books than chewing gum. One can only wonder what Hubbard would have made of the reading material that adorned the most iconic symbol of chewing gum, Chicago's Wrigley Building, in fall 2007. A 10-story-tall banner featured packs of three of the William Wrigley Jr. Company's most popular sugarfree gums-Orbit, Eclipse, and Extra-tucked into a dentist's white laboratory coat. Copy proclaimed that the trio were the "first and only" chewing gums to receive the American Dental Association (ADA) seal of approval. The patch on the jacket pocket read "ADA Accepted."

Three big insurers enter individual market
Three major dental insurers have announced offerings of individual coverage this summer, part of what industry observers say is an accommodation toward changing work force demographics and a need to boost enrollment numbers in a soft economy. Hartford, CT-based Aetna led off the round of announcements, all of which came within weeks of one another in June and early July. Aetna's products, Aetna Individual Advantage and Individual Advantage Plus, are PPOs being offered in Arizona, Illinois, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Plans are in the works to expand the offerings to other states in the near future.

Other recently-published articles from Managed Dental Care:

GAO: Young Medicaid enrollees at risk for tooth decay

A theory, in practice

A hothouse for dental care

NADP consumer survey reveals perceptions

Delta plans change policy on nonreimbursed care

The executive dentist

Making do

Striking from the Heartland

Oral care at a distance

Water tumbler

Three big insurers enter individual market

Gummed up?

Simulators likely to make inroads in production, education

ADA shake-up

The hygienist practitioner

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