Preventive Care: 3 Years of Pulse Report Insights, One Clear Opportunity for Payers
For the past three years, insights from the SKYGEN Pulse Reports have distilled a clear theme across the healthcare landscape: preventive dental and vision care is essential. Consumers appreciate its value, providers depend on it to drive better outcomes, and brokers champion it for their clients. Still, despite this widespread consensus, actual access and usage lag behind the ideal. For payers, this persistent gap isn't just a hurdle—it’s a powerful opportunity to step forward and make a difference.
Making a Difference, One Smile at a Time: My Journey with TeamSmile
Discover how SKYGEN’s partnership with TeamSmile brings free dental care and joyful experiences to underserved children—combining community impact, oral health education, and meaningful volunteer opportunities.
How SKYGEN's Commitment to Continuous Improvement Drives Meaningful Client Outcomes
Recognized as one of BizTech Outlook’s 10 Best Companies to Watch in 2026, SKYGEN drives innovation in specialty benefits with cloud-native technology, client-centric solutions, and continuous platform improvement.
Early Detection in Vision Care Catches the Eyes of Payers
It’s said that a person’s eyes are the windows to the soul—and it’s also becoming clear that eyes offer an important look into whole-body health. Vision care providers can be the first to detect early signs of serious systemic diseases. In fact, there’s an emerging field of oculomics developing around use of eye scans to identify and detect heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, risk of stroke, sickle cell anemia and other conditions at an early stage. There’s also research indicating eye scans could help identify risk of Alzheimer's much earlier than ever. Dramatic growth in recent years of artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic tools and analysis is helping drive this trend.
Join SKYGEN at Key 2026 Tradeshows & Conferences
The best connections happen in person – don’t you agree? In 2026, we’re continuing the conversation at top industry tradeshows and community events across the country. Whether you’re looking to collaborate, learn, or simply catch up, these events are a great opportunity to meet our specialty benefits experts face-to-face. Let’s connect and spark some new ideas.
SKYGEN’s Smile Squad Saves the Day: Celebrating National Children’s Dental Health Month!
February is here, and that means it’s time to celebrate National Children’s Dental Health Month 2026, a special time dedicated to helping kids learn healthy habits that keep their smiles bright for life! At SKYGEN, we believe every child deserves a happy, healthy smile… and that learning about dental care can be fun, not frightening.
What Everyone’s Reading: Insights Shaping the Future of Dental & Vision
One thing is clear: there’s a strong appetite for timely, front-line insight into how the dental and vision industries are evolving. The content drawing the most attention on our site focuses on addressing real-world challenges, exploring emerging technologies, and delivering data-backed insights—especially those highlighted through the SKYGEN Pulse research series. Below is a roundup of our most-read pieces, featuring ideas and perspectives that continue to resonate across the industry.
Expanding Vision Care in Tanzania: Our 2025 Work in Moshi and Arusha
Big Milestone: In 2025, we provided distributed our 100,000th pair of glasses.
Partnerships are central to this mission. SKYGEN International Foundation is grateful to Albwardy Investments, a new partner whose generosity allowed screenings to be held in their hotel. Their support, along with that of other partners, makes it possible to reach hundreds of thousands of people with life-changing care. Every screening, every pair of glasses, and every smile brings us closer to a world where access to vision care is universal.
Faces We Won’t Forget: Highlights from Tanzania and Kenya
Seven years ago, having your eyes tested and getting glasses was very difficult in Tanzania. The few optometrists there were—one for every 250,000 people—were out of reach for the country’s mostly rural population.
To create much-needed access to vision care, the SKYGEN International Foundation began bringing free vision testing and prescription eyeglasses to Tanzania through mobile clinics. We reached a milestone this year: As of November 30th, we’ve given 337,371 vision tests and distributed 107,111 free pairs of prescription glasses, reading glasses and sunglasses in Tanzania and Kenya. We’ve also added wellness testing to our services.
Reimagine Provider Collaboration with Integrated, Automated Workflows
Every day, health insurers lose hours—and dollars—due to disconnected provider systems and manual processes. Delays, miscommunication, and manual processes are more than operational annoyances. They represent real business risk.
What if those losses could be stopped with a single shift in how workflows are managed? Integrated, automated workflows aren’t just a technology upgrade. They’re a way to reclaim time, reduce errors, and transform how your teams collaborate with vision providers.
20 Years of Impact: SKYGEN Recognized for Driving NADP’s Work Forward
For 20 years, SKYGEN has been an active member of the National Association of Dental Plans (NADP), an organization dedicated to advancing access to affordable, quality dental care through advocacy, research, and education. NADP is the only trade association that brings together all segments of the dental benefits industry in the U.S. At the CONVERGE 2025 national conference, NADP presented SKYGEN with its Longevity Award.
Celebrating SKYGEN’s Shanna Madden: Recipient of NADP’s Evelyn Ireland Volunteer Award
It’s not every day that someone’s dedication to their industry is celebrated on a national stage! That day came recently for SKYGEN Client Experience Executive Shanna Madden. Shanna received the Evelyn Ireland Volunteer Award from the National Association of Dental Plans (NADP) at its CONVERGE 2025 national conference. The award honors volunteers whose annual contributions help the association fulfill its mission of enhancing consumer access to affordable, high-quality dental care through advocacy, research, and the advancement of dental benefits. Shanna has served several years on both NADP’s Education Commission and Government Relations Workgroup.
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