In This
Issue:
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We Added
More Groups, Subscribers in 2006
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New
Marketing Effort Focuses on Small Business
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Dental
Networks Grew in 2006
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Reports
Show Dental Benefits Offer Good Opportunities for
Brokers
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New Study
Reveals What Brokers Want Most from Dental Benefits
Carriers
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Former HHS
Secretary Hails Delta Dental's Prevention Approach
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Program
Makes Dental Care Accessible to Employees Not Covered
by Benefits
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Golfers, Mark Your Calendar for
June's Golf Classic
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Foundation Helps Underserved
Access Dental Care
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Congress Debates Legislation
Promoting Electronic Medical Records
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Last year we added more than 34,000 primary subscribers, welcomed many new groups, and maintained a client retention rate close to 95%. For more about our 2006
successes,
read
on.
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We recently named Barbara Strano to a new position, which focuses on groups with 10 to 99 lives. Account Executives Kim White and Tina Sparrow pick up Strano’s former territory. For more about why the small-group market is so important to us,
read
on. |
More dentists in New Jersey and Connecticut participate with us than any other dental benefits provider. And we’re still growing. To see how our networks grew in 2006,
read
on. |
| Dental benefits rank just behind health and retirement as employees’ favorite benefit, according to the National Association of Dental Plans (NADP). Seven out of 10 employers offer dental benefits, often using them as the differentiating factor in recruiting and retaining employees. For more about the future outlook in dental benefits,
read on. |
| Customer service tops the list for brokers and consultants, followed by value, easy administration, fast claims and problem resolution. Delta Dental outscored the competition on each of these traits. For more about the study, which was conducted by an independent market research firm,
read
on. |
| Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson called Delta Dental’s focus on prevention a model for the healthcare industry. “(Delta Dental is) doing something that every other facet of healthcare should be putting an emphasis on: prevention,” Thompson said at the annual Delta Dental Staff Seminar. For more about why prevention makes sense from a health-care and economic standpoint,
read on. |
| Do your clients have employees who aren’t covered by their company’s benefits program? Temporary and part-time workers without dental coverage may benefit from Delta Dental Patient Direct. For more about this dental membership program,
read on. |
| The Seventeenth Annual Delta Dental Classic takes place June 20th at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The event to date has raised more than $553,000 for Special Olympics New Jersey. To find out how you can participate, contact Jennifer Appaluccio at
jappaluccio@deltadentalnj.com. |
| The Delta Dental Foundation awarded more than $560,000 to programs that bring dental care to people in underserved communities throughout New Jersey and Connecticut. It also funded several dental education grants at colleges throughout the area. For more about our 2007 Foundation grants,
read on. |
| Although only a small number of dentist offices currently use electronic medical records (EMRs), that may soon change. President Bush in 2004 pledged to equip most Americans with EMRs within a decade. Congress is looking at legislation that may make it possible. For more about the legislation and how it will affect patient care and healthcare costs,
read on. |
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