Kaiser Permanente Small Group Plan Offerings
Delta Dental of Colorado has made significant changes to the Kaiser Permanente small group plan offerings.
Adult and child benefits have been aligned on the 11671 plan, waiting periods have been removed for all Kaiser Permanente voluntary plans, and a 10% broker commission for the 11671 plan has been put in place for current groups at renewal.
For more information on small group dental benefits, contact your Delta Dental account manager or sales executive directly or email salesteam@ddpco.com.
Keep Your Mouth and Body Healthy
In the fall of 2015, Delta Dental of Colorado created SpringRock Dental as an additional access point for quality dental care. For the past year, SpringRock has partnered with Kaiser Permanente to co-locate a dental hygienist at the Aurora Centrepoint medical building. This location was chosen because of the pronounced gap in oral health care for adult Medicaid recipients and a high number of Medicaid enrollees in the immediate area. Nearly six in 10 patients who have been seen at SpringRock are Medicaid recipients, and the majority of those were adults. For 16% of those patients, it was their first-ever visit to a dental hygienist or dentist.
Preventive dental care is available to Kaiser Permanente members, SpringRock Dental accepts insured and uninsured patients. Services include:
- Risk assessment & oral examination
- Oral health education
- Oral cleaning
- Fluoride varnish
- Sealants
- Bitewing x-rays
- Scaling & root planning
- Oral cancer screening
For more information, visit www.springrockdental.org. DDCO is committed improving the oral health of the communities we serve.
Delta Dental of Colorado CEO, Kate Paul, Recipient of the 2016 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year
A student selection committee from the University of Colorado Denver
Business School spent the summer reviewing nominations for the 2016
Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award. The submissions were
impressive. Denver is home to many outstanding business people who firmly believe in a personal
commitment to ethics and integrity, just as Bill Daniels did.
Nominees were judged for how well they embody the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative principles of integrity,
trust, accountability, transparency, fairness, respect, rule of law, and viability. While every nomination was
impressive, one stood out from the rest.
With a long and successful history of leadership in health care and an unwavering commitment to "doing
what's right," Kate Paul, president and CEO of Delta Dental of Colorado, was selected as the
recipient of the CU Denver Business School's 2016 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award.
Congratulations to Kate Paul and all of Denver's most ethical business leaders.
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ACA faces challenges in moving healthcare from volume to value
Cigna joins health insurance industry pullback from Obamacare
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 4
, 2016
Health insurer Cigna Corp. said on Thursday it would not expand its participation in the government-run health exchanges next year, joining an industry pullback from the struggling business.
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Future Physicians' Demands For National Health Insurance
The Huffington Post, November 3
, 2016
Medical students are becoming strong advocates all over the country for expanded and improved Medicare for all. Spurred on by their increasing awareness of the restricted access, unaffordability, and inequities keeping many Americans from necessary health care, they are organizing and making their voices heard about the urgency of real health care reform.
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Health-Insurance Rate Hikes Pinch Those Without Subsidies
The Wall Street Journal, November 7,
2016
In a letter from her health insurer just over a week ago, Tawni Phelan of Oklahoma City learned the cost of her family's coverage, which they buy themselves, would nearly double next year.
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Biking, hiking contribute $1.6 billion to Colorado's economy, study says
Denver Business Journal, November 8
, 2016
Biking generates a $1.1 billion annual economic impact in Colorado, in addition to $511 million in health benefits that include the prevention of about 50 deaths every year, according to a new study done for the state.
Colorado gives green light to Xcel's plan to add a lot more solar power
CBS Denver, November 9, 2016
Colorado regulators on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping settlement agreement that will change how customers of Xcel Energy Inc. in the state get and pay for their electricity.
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Banner to expand SE Fort Collins clinic
The Coloradoan, November 2, 2016
Banner Health will begin a $5.7 million expansion of its health center on Harmony Road in January.
A plane full of people just flew cross country on wood-based fuel made by a Colorado company
The Denver Post,
November 14, 2016
Alaska Airlines flew a commercial flight on Monday from Seattle to Washington, D.C., using jet fuel that Gevo, a Douglas County biofuels producer, made out of alcohol derived from wood scraps.
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