CARE: We know that oral health impacts overall health. To create better care and better health outcomes for everyone, we are redefining what that care looks like. This means offering prevention-focused dental benefits, embracing alternative care settings and expanding access to care |
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VALUE: The key to realizing better health through oral health is to reward value over volume. For more than two centuries, oral health providers have been tied to a model that incentivizes high-cost, complex procedures and focuses on the volume of care that gets delivered. It’s time for a new approach — one in which providers are rewarded for quality outcomes rather than the quantity of care delivered. |
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INNOVATION: Disrupting the status quo and investing in new solutions is essential to create large-scale change. Embracing and advancing innovations such as minimally invasive care, teledentistry, medical-dental integration and new payment models will help us get there. |
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TRANSFORMATION: Oral health is an essential component of our overall health that we can’t afford to silo from the rest of the health care system. It costs too much — for patients and the system. Changing this reality will take a concerted, collaborative effort from every stakeholder in the system. Together, providers, payors, policy makers, employers and patients will need to work together to build an oral health system that works for everyone.
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