The growth of Humana's dental plans, which has averaged 20 percent in each of the last six years, now makes the company one of the nation's leaders in dental coverage. Consumers benefit from the size of Humana's dental business as more and more customers choose managed dental plans y dental health maintenance organizations or preferred provider organizations. Massive membership is the key to achieving the highest value and the best quality programs for three reasons. First, the company shares data about the best methods among all its participating dentists.
More members means more experience for the patient's own dentist to draw on.
Second, a large dental plan has lower per-member administrative costs. Finally, consumers benefit from the increased bargaining power the dental plan realizes as its membership increases. Because of its expanding ability to deliver quality and value in its dental benefit plans, the company expects to realize continued strong growth in the second half of this year. The addition of managed dental plans to our business portfolio, matched with customers' increasing desire for such plans, means our membership can now snowball. More membership means we can reduce administrative costs per member, which means more of the premium dollar is available to expand benefits.