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U.S. Bank, DentalOne collaborate on digital billing tool

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

U.S. Bank is partnering with DentalOne Partners to provide a billing and payment tool that will help DentalOne reduce costs and improve efficiency.

February 5, 2013

Dental Diaries: The illusive standalone dental benefit

By Dr. Sheri Doniger

With more baby boomers retiring and many employers cutting or altogether eliminating dental benefits, a growing number of dental patients are looking for alternative sources of dental benefits. Unfortunately, as Dr. Sheri Doniger found, the pickin's are slim.

February 4, 2013

Curve Dental creates custom patient forms for tablets

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Curve Dental has released Storyline, a platform within the company's Web-based dental software that helps customers create custom forms that can be completed by patients using an Apple or Android tablet.

January 30, 2013

HIPAA concerns drive cloud-based data sharing

By Kathy Kincade

Do you use Dropbox, YouSendIt, or email to send images and other patient data to your lab or colleagues? If so, you might want to rethink the practice, given the growing emphasis on HIPAA compliance and patient privacy. Maybe it's time to try "the cloud."

January 29, 2013

ADA urges pediatric dental coverage to stay in ACA

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

In response to recent calls by business groups and insurers for the U.S. government to trim the essential benefits -- including dental benefits -- that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to offer, the ADA is urging lawmakers to "stay the course" when it comes to pediatric dental care.

January 28, 2013

Health Net awarded Medi-Cal dental contracts

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The California Department of Health Care Services has awarded Health Net of California, a subsidiary of Health Net, five-year contracts to continue providing Medi-Cal managed care dental benefits in Los Angeles and Sacramento counties.

January 28, 2013

Ore. legislation addresses oral health in ACA

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Oregon legislators have introduced three new pieces of legislation related to dental provisions in the impending Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the integration of coordinated care organizations and dental care organizations.

January 27, 2013

Study: Patients don't like decision-making software

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Increased use of computerized clinical decision-support systems in conjunction with electronic health records leads to greater patient dissatisfaction and could increase noncompliance with preventive care and treatment recommendations, according to a study in Medical Decision Making.

January 24, 2013

New appointment tracking system targets dentistry

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

MNG Marketing, creators of the customer retention program MechanicNet, has introduced PROminder, a Web-based appointment tracking system for dentists.

January 24, 2013

Eastern Dentists Insurance expands to NC

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Eastern Dentists Insurance Company has negotiated an agreement with Medical Security, a subsidiary of Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina, to acquire its dental professional liability insurance business.

January 23, 2013

Will ACA prompt some patients to drop dental insurance?

By Donna Domino

While 5.3 million U.S. children will gain dental coverage in 2014 thanks to the Affordable Care Act, up to 11 million adults could drop their own dental coverage when their children are covered separately, dental insurers say. And parents who switch to dental coverage under their medical insurance may have to change dentists.

January 22, 2013

MetLife introduces PDP Plus network

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

MetLife has introduced PDP Plus, an expanded dental preferred provider organization network.

January 21, 2013

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