“Our participation in community-based programs enables us to reach
millions of underserved children and adults in many different states. In
addition to providing much-needed dental services, we’re also able to
focus on disease prevention and preventive care. We’re grateful for the
opportunity to help improve the oral health of these populations and are
proud to be of service.”
— Michael Kaufmann, senior vice president
Delta Dental proudly participates in several state and
county-based programs that provide dental benefits to
underserved populations.
In California, we administer
the Denti-Cal program, which provides dental benefits to
6.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries. Delta Dental also
administers California’s Healthy Families program — an
outgrowth of the federally funded Children’s Health
Insurance Program — along with several other county-sponsored “Healthy Kids” programs, which provide
benefits to children of low-income families who do not
qualify for Medicaid or Healthy Families.
In
Pennsylvania, Delta Dental partners with Capital
BlueCross on that state’s equivalent of Healthy Families,
known as the Pennsylvania Childrens’ Health Insurance
program, which has about 20,000 beneficiaries.
In Texas, Delta Dental administers dental benefits for the uninsured children of working families through Texas CHIP Dental Services. Enrollment has surpassed 325,000.
With virtually all of these programs, we
administer benefits at an extremely low or revenue-neutral
administrative rate — something most for-profit
companies would find difficult to justify to their
shareholders and investment partners.
Visit our Community Partnership Programs web pages.
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