Dan Mazier on Questions Passed as Orders for Return

With regard to the Canadian Dental Care Plan: (a) what is the average cost per patient, per year, since the program’s inception; (b) what is the projected average cost per patient, per year, for each of the next five fiscal years; (c) what are the total number of claims submitted to date, and, of these, how many were denied under (i) Schedule A, (ii) Schedule B; (d) for any rejected or denied claims in (c), what is the breakdown of the (i) number, (ii) types, of treatments denied under each schedule, along with the reasons for denial; (e) what is the total number of pre-authorization requests submitted under the Canadian Dental Care Plan; (f) of the requests in (e), how many have been rejected, including the reasons for rejection; (g) what is the average time between a dental office submitting a pre-authorization request and receiving a decision (approval or denial); (h) what has been the longest adjudication time recorded to date, including the type of request; (i) how many Canadians have withdrawn from the Canadian Dental Care Plan since its launch; (j) what is the number of providers who have withdrawn from the Canadian Dental Care Plan since its launch; (k) what is the total administrative cost of delivering the Canadian Dental Care Plan since inception, including all payments to third-party administrators; and (l) what is the number of new Canadian Dental Care Plan patients approved since the program’s expansion to individuals aged 18 to 64?