Before greeting your 11:00 am new patient, you review their medical history and note checkmarks indicating “diabetes” and “bleeding gums”. Preparing for a potential discussion about periodontal disease, you grab a few educational materials and head into the operatory. Of course, you are aware of the negative association between periodontal disease and chronic medical conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but is your patient? And will making every effort to obtain a periodontal treatment plan acceptance feel like an uphill battle?
Cigna Dental’s Oral Health Integration Program® (OHIP) not only offers enhanced benefits to patients with chronic medical conditions, but provides patient reimbursement of eligible copays/coinsurances for treatments like scaling and root planing and periodontal maintenance. This Program helps to remove financial barriers that may stand in the way of treatment plan acceptance and aims to improve patient overall health through better oral health. Cigna Dental members who have one or more of the following medical conditions are eligible to enroll in the Oral Health Integration Program®:
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes
Head and Neck Cancer Radiation
Heart Disease
Huntington’s Disease
Lupus
Maternity
Opioid Misuse and Addition
Organ Transplant
Parkinson’s Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sjogren’s Syndrome
Stroke
With additional dental benefits and no out of pocket expenses, perhaps you can have a smoother conversation about periodontal disease resulting in treatment plan acceptance (not to mention the gratitude from your patient, who is not only getting the treatment they need, but also improving their health and saving money, too)!
Encourage your patients to enroll in the free Cigna Dental Oral Health Integration Program® on MyCigna.com or via a paper enrollment form. More information is available on the Cigna for Health Care Professionals portal: www.cignaforhcp.com.