we actually did it and the insurers agreed to move forward with the fee schedule updates. i am pretty blown away by the result and so grateful to everyone who stuck with this. just keep an eye on your benefits because we need to make sure they follow through on …
May 14, 2023
Final supporters
Please join the Kansas Dental Association (KDA) in appealing to the dental insurers in Kansas to increase the yearly maximum benefit of their policy holders as well as their fee schedules to reflect the current dental economy and increased dental practice overhead due to inflation, increased dental supply costs and PPE costs as a result of COVID. In this way, Kansas patients will benefit by reversing the erosion of dental services they receive.
This letter and petition will be provided to all Kansas dental insurers. The KDA asks you to add your voice to ours by signing the petition in an effort to drive real change with dental insures!
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Reached 500 supporters
March 15, 2023
Reached 100 supporters
February 14, 2023
71 Comments
Long overdue, Insurance companies have been eroding the ability for practices to grow, properly compensate their employees, and have the ability to modernize and purchase the new and expensive equipment necessary to practice their procedures in the same manner that is now considered standard in the dental teaching institutions in the U.S.A.
Our patients often have to choose which tooth to restore first because they will meet their insurance max with a single procedure after they have spent their allowed amounts for the comprehensive exam, and radiographs.
Most current yearly maximums are the same as they were in the early 1960’s when John Kennedy was President. Insurance premiums have certainly risen. Insurance CEO’s salaries have certainly risen. This is an obscene situation.
Patients deserve better. Yearly maximums have been the same for over 15 years and the fees schedules don't even come close to the usual and customary fees of any dental office around. Dental insurance is basically a scam.
Dental practices' overhead has increased substantially over the past 3 years. Reimbursement by insurers is necessary to help cover some of those costs, so the uninsured aren't shouldering a disproportionate share after fees are raised.
Patients are often begin squeezed out of getting care they need because they reach the maximum benefit after restoring just a single tooth. Time for change!
You’re killing me smalls! Adjust the annual max and the UCR to keep up with cost of living AND inflation.
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we actually did it and the insurers agreed to move forward with the fee schedule updates. i am pretty blown away by the result and so grateful to everyone who stuck with this. just keep an eye on your benefits because we need to make sure they follow through on …
May 14, 2023
Final supporters
Please join the Kansas Dental Association (KDA) in appealing to the dental insurers in Kansas to increase the yearly maximum benefit of their policy holders as well as their fee schedules to reflect the current dental economy and increased dental practice overhead due to inflation, increased dental supply costs and PPE costs as a result of COVID. In this way, Kansas patients will benefit by reversing the erosion of dental services they receive.
This letter and petition will be provided to all Kansas dental insurers. The KDA asks you to add your voice to ours by signing the petition in an effort to drive real change with dental insures!
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
March 15, 2023
Reached 100 supporters
February 14, 2023
71 Comments
Time for change. More and more offices are turning toward membership plans and exiting dental insurance contracts because participating with insurances is no longer sustainable. Local AADOM chapter is bringing in strategists to help facilitate offices in their exit.
Long overdue, Insurance companies have been eroding the ability for practices to grow, properly compensate their employees, and have the ability to modernize and purchase the new and expensive equipment necessary to practice their procedures in the same manner that is now considered standard in the dental teaching institutions in the U.S.A.
Our patients often have to choose which tooth to restore first because they will meet their insurance max with a single procedure after they have spent their allowed amounts for the comprehensive exam, and radiographs.
Most current yearly maximums are the same as they were in the early 1960’s when John Kennedy was President. Insurance premiums have certainly risen. Insurance CEO’s salaries have certainly risen. This is an obscene situation.
Patients deserve better. Yearly maximums have been the same for over 15 years and the fees schedules don't even come close to the usual and customary fees of any dental office around. Dental insurance is basically a scam.
Dental practices' overhead has increased substantially over the past 3 years. Reimbursement by insurers is necessary to help cover some of those costs, so the uninsured aren't shouldering a disproportionate share after fees are raised.
Patients are often begin squeezed out of getting care they need because they reach the maximum benefit after restoring just a single tooth. Time for change!
You’re killing me smalls! Adjust the annual max and the UCR to keep up with cost of living AND inflation.
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Time for change. More and more offices are turning toward membership plans and exiting dental insurance contracts because participating with insurances is no longer sustainable. Local AADOM chapter is bringing in strategists to help facilitate offices in their exit.