CDA filed the legal action that led to this settlement in August 2013 after learning earlier that year of Delta Dental’s plans to reduce reimbursement rates for the Premier Plan by 8 to 12 percent. CDA claimed that Delta Dental’s attempt to amend the Participating Dentist Agreements (PDA) to pave the way for this reduction was a breach of its “duty of good faith and fair dealing.”
Background
CDA filed the legal action that led to this settlement in August 2013 after learning earlier that year of Delta Dental’s plans to reduce reimbursement rates for the Premier Plan by 8 to 12 percent. CDA claimed that Delta Dental’s attempt to amend the Participating Dentist Agreements (PDA) to pave the way for this reduction was a breach of its “duty of good faith and fair dealing.” CDA also maintained that Delta Dental had not fairly and adequately disclosed its plan to reduce reimbursement rates. In the course of the litigation, CDA discovered that Delta Dental had been imposing additional limitations on provider annual fee filings for participation in the Premier network that we concluded the PDA did not allow.
Settlement Summary
View the original settlement information in the PDF attached.
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