A quarter of dentists nationwide offer membership plans, mainly to the uninsured, according to a 2021 survey of 70,000 dentists by the American Dental Association, KHN reports.
These in-office plans are largely targeted to the 65 million Americans who lack dental insurance and have to pay out-of-pocket for all their care. Dentists also like the plans better than handling insurance plans because they don’t have to deal with insurers’ heavily discounted reimbursement rates, waits to get preapprovals to provide services and delays in getting their claims paid. Read more.
