Community, State and Government Dental Programs

"Our participation in state and government programs enables us to reach millions of underserved children and adults in several different states. In addition to providing much-needed dental services, we’re also able to focus on disease prevention and preventive care. We’re grateful for the opportunity to help improve the oral health of these populations and are proud to be of service."
—Michael Kaufmann, senior vice president

Delta Dental proudly participates in several state and county-based programs that provide dental benefits to underserved populations.

In California, we administer the Denti-Cal program, which provides dental benefits to 6.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries. Delta Dental also administers California’s Healthy Families program — an outgrowth of the federally funded Children’s Health Insurance Program — along with several other county-sponsored “Healthy Kids” programs, which provide benefits to children of low-income families who do not qualify for Medicaid or Healthy Families.

In Pennsylvania, Delta Dental partners with Capital BlueCross on that state’s equivalent of Healthy Families, known as the Pennsylvania Childrens’ Health Insurance program, which has about 20,000 beneficiaries.

In Texas, Delta Dental administers dental benefits for the uninsured children of working families through Texas CHIP Dental Services. Enrollment has surpassed 325,000.

With virtually all of these programs, we administer benefits at an extremely low or revenue-neutral administrative rate — something most for-profit companies would find difficult to justify to their shareholders and investment partners.

Visit our Community Partnership Programs web pages.