New MetLife Dental Health ManagerSM Launched
January 11 2010 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
MetLife, a leading provider of employee benefits that offers
dental plan administration for over 21 million people, today
announced the availability of the MetLife Dental Health Manager.
The proprietary dental disease management program provides
participants with relevant educational content and personalized
report cards that graphically illustrate their risk for oral
disease and dental health, helping them understand and track their
progress for maintaining or managing their oral health. The new
program is available to new and existing MetLife customers with 500
or more employees, at no additional cost as a standalone program.
Employers also have the option to coordinate the program with a
disease management vendor which requires a one-time set-up fee.
“With the desire among employers to manage continually rising
health-related costs, the importance of dental benefits to
employees, and the association of oral health to overall health, a
dental disease management program represents a logical, timely
option. Good health is its own reward and a strong motivator for
employees who participate in workplace wellness programs. Dental
disease management is an important expansion of those programs and
the outcomes have the potential to benefit both employees and
employers,” said Dr. David Guarrera, DDS, vice president, MetLife
Dental Product Management.
Disease management programs, while an accepted medical practice,
are still relatively new in the dental field. Dental disease
management programs make sense from a business perspective since
they may help employers get more value from the dental benefit plan
dollars they already spend, encourage more appropriate dental
benefit plans, cultivate the health and well-being of their
workforce and enhance a benefit that employees value.
How it Works
The MetLife Dental Health Manager is a proprietary dental
disease management program consisting of two primary components.
The first is a report card that illustrates a participant’s risk
and disease score — utilizing an interactive risk assessment and
data analysis derived from dental utilization data as well as
systemic disease data — to help them understand and track changes
in their dental risk and disease over time. The second component is
the online MetLife Oral Health Library, which contains educational
articles and tools, designed to help participants take a more
active role in managing their oral health. The Library also
encourages employees to ask informed questions about their
benefits, dental care and risk for dental disease, and offers
relevant information specific to employee oral health needs.
While users obtain private, specific information for assessing
their own progress, employers will receive aggregate reporting
providing them with the ability to measure and monitor the health
of an employee population, or segments of that population, and the
utilization of benefits over time so they can make better decisions
about dental benefit plans.
“With over 45 years of dental focus, and as the dental plan
administrator for over 21 million people, MetLife is uniquely
positioned to offer such a comprehensive dental disease management
program to our group plan members,” adds Dr. Guarrera. “The MetLife
Dental Health Manager is a dental disease management program with
actionable insights designed to help both employers and employees
maximize the value of their dental benefits.”
To help employers understand more about how dental disease
management programs can complement other wellness initiatives and
be implemented most effectively, MetLife has also made available a
free guide, Dental Disease Management: What Makes an Effective
Program, which can be obtained at
www.whymetlife.com/dentaldm.
About MetLife
MetLife, Inc. is a leading provider of insurance, employee
benefits and financial services with operations throughout the
United States and the Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific
regions. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife, Inc.
reaches more than 70 million customers around the world and MetLife
is the largest life insurer in the United States (based on life
insurance in-force). The MetLife companies offer life insurance,
annuities, auto and home insurance, retail banking and other
financial services to individuals, as well as group insurance and
retirement & savings products and services to corporations and
other institutions. For more information, visit
www.metlife.com.
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