Overlooked and Underfunded: Dental Care’s Massive Potential to Serve Disadvantaged Populations
Tuesday, March 21 (Austin, TX) - FCA VI portfolio company, Enable Dental, is featured on House Calls, a podcast hosted by Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets, that explores some of the most interesting segments of healthcare and features organizations and business models that are helping to change the U.S. healthcare industry.
Millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries lack access to dental care – a situation that not only affects their health and well-being but also increases America’s overall healthcare costs. In this episode, Cain Brothers’ Director Jenny Watson joins to talk about the role that private equity- and venture-backed dental providers and benefits administrators are playing in helping to expand access to quality dental care services for disadvantaged populations.
Watson highlights Enable Dental as a company that, while most investment and innovation is concentrated in pediatric dentistry, is bringing an innovated delivery and payment approach to an older population. Watson underscores Enable Dental’s focus on PACE programs, value-based care programs that provide comprehensive medical and social services to elderly to Medicare and dual eligible members, as part of the company’s mission to improve access to dental care as a means of caring for a person’s entire wellbeing in the continuity of care. This is very encouraging for healthcare as Enable Dental, a first mover in this segment, is bringing an innovative approach to provide care to a previously underserved population.
You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts here.
About Enable Dental
Enable Dental currently supports portable on-premise dental operations in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, and California and is a pioneering dental support organization (DSO). Enable Dental is re-imagining how dental care is delivered to individuals and organizations with unique needs. Visit http://www.enabledental.com/ for more information.