How Our Relationship with the Delta Dental Plans Association Benefits Your Clients

Delta Dental of New Jersey is proud to be part of America’s largest, most experienced dental benefits company - Delta Dental Plans Association (Delta Dental). Its 39 independent, affiliated member companies conduct business in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Members of the Delta Dental system offer nationwide dental benefits programs for a wide range of employers. Member companies administer programs that provide employees with quality, cost-effective dental benefits.

Delta Dental Programs Serve More Americans Than Any Other Dental Insurer

• Delta Dental serves more than one-fourth of the estimated 165 million Americans with dental insurance. It provides dental coverage to more than 50 million people in more than 88,000 groups across the nation.
• The Delta Dental Premier® dental network is the country’s most extensive. With approximately 121,000 dentists, Delta Dental’s Premier network is more than twice the size of any competitor’s PPO network.
• In 2006, Delta Dental of New Jersey processed 2.9 million dental claims with an accuracy rate of 99.4% or higher.
• Since 1954, Delta Dental has worked to improve oral health in the U.S. by emphasizing preventive care, and making dental coverage affordable to a wide variety of employers and groups.
• Delta Dental’s unique cost control measures and contractual agreements with dentists help to ensure quality care at moderate fees. Delta Dental of New Jersey saved groups more than $196.9 million in 2006.

Delta Dental Offers Products That Meet Groups’ Needs

Delta Dental offers a variety of programs, including managed fee-for-service and preferred-provider programs (PPOs), dental health maintenance organizations (DHMOs) and customized programs. Delta Dental also offers dental programs to national account groups. Through Delta Dental’s national accounts program, member companies provide quality, uniform dental benefits programs to groups with a multi-state labor force. These products include:

• Delta Dental Premier: national, fee-for-service based dental program
• Delta Dental PPO: national preferred-provider organization
• DeltaCare: dental health maintenance organization
• Delta Dental Patient Direct: dental discount plan available in New Jersey for individuals and families that do not have dental benefits through an employer

Dental Networks Are Among The Nation’s Largest

• Delta Dental Premier has more than 174,000 dentist locations. (Some dentists have more than one location.)
• Delta Dental PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) has more than 97,000 dentist locations.
• DeltaCare has more than 21,000 dentist locations.