Dental insurers are trying to get attention for an easily understood indicator of provider network quality: The number of providers in their networks.
Dental insurers have no simple, generally accepted, lawsuit-resistant way to explain that THEIR network managers proactively identified and chased away the dentist who used paper clips in permanent dental implants.
Dental insurers can easily promote the number of dentists in their networks.
Principal Financial Group Inc., Des Moines, Iowa (NYSE:PFG), recently reported that it has increased the number of dentists and specialists in its network to 80,000, from about 69,000.