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Union Dental provides a unique way for unions to provide dental care to their members. The company is currently serving the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). Union Dental receives annual management fees from the dentists in exchange for practicing in areas of exclusivity where CWA and IBEW members use the dentists' services. The company also has contracts with CWA & IBEW local unions to provide a dental network using the members' existing insurance policies. Dentists in the dental network provide services for union members, as well as existing patients, in exchange for an annual management fee. The network of dentists accepts payment from union insurance plans for services rendered as payment in full with certain procedures requiring a small out-of- pocket co-payment from the union member patient. Union Dental also owns and operates a 17- year old profitable dental practice.

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