Dental Benefit Plans

Use our resources to navigate the requirements of provider agreements, file dental claims and better understand your appeal rights as a dentist. If you experience challenges, you can submit your dental benefit plan issues online for review.

Dental Benefit Plans

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Learn how to weigh the costs before you sign a dental benefit participating provider agreement/contract.

California law requires every dental plan to have a formal procedure that providers can use to dispute/challenge actions/decisions made by the plan. Overview of plan legal requirements, steps to appealing claims, filing a payment disputes.

Overview of the payment arrangements to consider once an Associate begins providing treatment in a dental practice. 

Connect to dental plan advocacy, legal action and emerging news.

Dental benefit questions? Get expert advice.

Share issues and get support from expert analysts. 

Resource Library

Access an online library of downloadable articles, guides, templates, checklists and forms.

Dental Benefit Plan News

November 4, 2025
Adding an associate to your practice? 4 steps CDA analysts recommend

CDA’s resource library, along with phone and email guidance from specialized analysts, provides valuable support for each step of adding an associate.

Dental plan reform: A look at CDA's success
October 21, 2025
How 11 CDA-sponsored dental plan reform laws benefit dentists and patients

Dental plan reform continues to lead CDA’s advocacy agenda with another successful CDA-sponsored bill that will benefit California dentists and their patients.

CDA v. Delta Action Update
October 1, 2025
Court decides CDA’s appeal in lawsuit against Delta Dental of California

The California Court of Appeal has decided CDA’s appeal of the Superior Court ruling in CDA’s lawsuit against Delta Dental of California.

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