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Healthcare Physicians Practitioners Dental Benefits Benchmarks

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Healthcare Physicians Practitioners Employee Benefits Overview

Updated November 2026

Dental plans typically feature predictable costs and high employee participation rates, making them a staple of most benefit packages.

Our database includes 533 healthcare physicians practitioners employers offering 493 verified benefit plans. DPPO plans are the most common (88% of employers), followed by DMO (12%). Fully-Insured funding is the predominant model, used by 85% of industry employers. Most employers offer one plan to employees (55%).

Dental benchmarks cover preventive care coverage, basic and major service cost-sharing, and annual maximums.

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Healthcare Physicians Practitioners plan design & cost benchmarks

In-Network Cost Sharing: sample layout
In-Network Benefits
LimitedBalancedRobust
Your Plan
Individual Deductible
$27
$47
$72
$4752Bal
Family Deductible
$76
$150
$194
$15052Bal
Annual Maximum
$1,235
$1,871
$2,265
$1,87152Bal
Ortho Lifetime Maximum
$1,192
$1,456
$1,918
$1,45652Bal
Preventive Coverage
83%
89%
99%
89%52Bal
Basic Coverage
71%
76%
80%
76%52Bal
Major Coverage
50%
55%
59%
55%52Bal

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Real plan-design and cost benchmarks for healthcare physicians practitioners, with percentile rankings and exportable data.

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In-Network Cost Sharing

Deductibles, copays, coinsurance & out-of-pocket maximums

Employee Contributions

Monthly employee premium contributions by tier

Gross Premium Rates

Total monthly premium costs by coverage tier

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Plan Type Mix

% of employers offering each

VERIFIED
DPPO88%
DMO12%

Plan Funding

% of employers by funding

VERIFIED
Fully-Insured85%
Self-Insured13%
Level-Funded2%

Plans Offered

% of employers by plan count

VERIFIED
One Plan55%
Two Plans37%
Three or More Plans8%

Healthcare Physicians Practitioners Benefits Landscape

Industry trends and benchmarking considerations

Physician practices and healthcare practitioner groups face distinct benefits challenges compared to hospital systems. Our data shows smaller practice sizes correlate with higher rates of fully-insured plans, while larger multi-specialty groups more often self-fund. Plan design choices in this sector balance attracting clinical talent with practice economics.

Key Trends

Fully-Insured Prevalence

Smaller practices in our database predominantly use fully-insured plans for cost predictability and administrative simplicity.

PPO Preference

Physician practices show strong preference for PPO plans, offering flexibility that clinical professionals expect.

Benchmarking Considerations

Practice size affects benefits patterns. Compare against similar-sized practices for meaningful benchmarks—a 10-physician group will show different patterns than a 200-provider multi-specialty practice.

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