In this episode of The DrBicuspid.com Podcast, Jay Millikan of Fluent joins the show at the recent Greater New York Dental Meeting to discuss the myth that dental practices are dropping insurance.
As 2025 comes to a close, Millikan says the numbers just don't show that reported trend is happening. Millikan shares several data points in the discussion.
Learn more about Fluent, and be sure to reference the data points below mentioned by Millikan during the podcast. As a note, the data views come from a dataset containing commercial claims data from more than 100 million Americans with commercial insurance and does not include the entire market.
Figure 1: In-network/Out-of-network distribution by state.
Figure 2: In-network/Out-of-network distribution (by procedure category -- endodontics, periodontics, & oral surgery; implants; orthodontics).
Figure 3: U.S. patient in-network/out-of-network distribution (by procedure category -- diagnostic & preventive, restorative, prosthodontics).
Figure 4: In-network/Out-of-network distribution overall.
