Ronald Inge, D.D.S.
Ronald Inge, D.D.S.
Dr. Inge is the Vice President of Professional Services and Dental Director for Washington Dental Service. He brings with him a broad base of knowledge and experience in the dental benefits industry. His multi-functional capabilities include network development, contracting and provider relations, as well as overseeing and setting clinical policy.
About
Dr. Inge is the Vice President of Professional Services and Dental Director for Washington Dental Service. He brings with him a broad base of knowledge and experience in the dental benefits industry. His multi-functional capabilities include network development, contracting and provider relations, as well as overseeing and setting clinical policy. He has an extremely well rounded dental business background, having directly led or collaborated in business decisions ranging from clinical to sales and underwriting. Dr. Inge is also a nationally known and respected speaker on the topic of dental benefits.
As the Executive Director of the Institute for Oral Health, Dr. Inge has championed efforts to publicize innovative solutions to many of the current challenges to improving oral health. The mission of the Institute for Oral Health is to advance oral health care by identifying effective and efficient guidelines for treatment, access, and delivery of health care, and to promote best practices by serving as a central resource for shared practical knowledge and collaboration to benefit the dental profession and the public.
Dr. Inge has also served as an Associate Executive Director, Division of Dental Practice, at the American Dental Association (ADA). His responsibilities at the ADA were to provide strategic leadership in policy development and implementation for the division of dental practice that included practice management, dental benefit programs, access-to-care issues and disease prevention.
Prior to joining the ADA, Dr. Inge was Aetna Dental’s Chief Dental Officer, where he oversaw Aetna’s dental clinical quality and utilization management programs. He was instrumental in conveying the value of the medical/dental integration and driving initial validation studies related to the integration concept.
Dr. Inge gained his knowledge of managed dental care while working in California. He served as the Vice President of Professional Services and Chief Dental Officer for PMI, the managed dental care division of Delta of CA. Prior to PMI, he served as the Senior Vice President of Provider Relations at DentiCare of California.
Dr. Inge has 15 years of private practice experience as a general dentist. He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from UCLA and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology from Stanford University.
