It’s not just employees who do better when they take advantage of preventive dental care, warding off expensive treatments down the road and cutting their out-of-pocket costs. But employers make out, too, saving money on group policies.
That’s according to a new study from the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, which finds that companies that proactively urge employees to use those preventive dental benefits can cut the costs on group policies for workers.
The fifth annual Guardian Workplace Benefits Study, Dental Benefits: A Bridge to Oral Health & Wellness, analyzed dental claims data from 2011–2017. It categorized employer groups based on the utilization of preventive and major services within their companies; groups were tagged as either high-preventive-utilization or low-preventive-utilization.
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