Insurance: Page 154

Ameritas expands network
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Ameritas Group has added more than 22,000 dental offices to its dental network in the U.S., bringing the total network size to more than 130,000 providers, the company said.
April 4, 2010
PracticeWorks to buy Windent
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
PracticeWorks Systems, a division of Carestream Health, will purchase the Windent business of HealthSoft, the companies announced.
April 4, 2010
Dos and don'ts for insurance: Make dental insurance an easy subject
By Dr. Roger P. Levin
Insurance is a complex issue for patients and practices alike, but the better a practice handles insurance issues with its patients, the more trust patients will have in the practice.
April 4, 2010
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SD, Ore. ban fee capping
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
South Dakota and Oregon have approved laws that prohibit insurance companies from limiting fees for dental procedures they don't cover, and several other states are poised to follow suit.
April 1, 2010
Dental practice hit by online thieves
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Computer criminals stole more than $200,000 out of the online bank accounts of a Missouri dental practice on March 22, according to an article on krebsonsecurity.com.
March 29, 2010
Iowa Legislature passes fee-capping ban
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Iowa is poised to become the latest state in the U.S. to ban dental fee capping after legislators last week passed a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from limiting fees for dental procedures they don't cover.
March 28, 2010
OHA: Healthcare reform halts dental Medicaid cuts
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The healthcare reform bill that U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 will stop further cuts to adult dental Medicaid benefits, according to Oral Health America (OHA).
March 28, 2010
Comfort Dental fees don't rise for 5th straight year
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Most health and dental care costs are rising, but Colorado-based Comfort Dental will hold its fees steady without an increase for the fifth consecutive year, the practice announced.
March 28, 2010
Some NY dentists reportedly pay for Medicaid patients
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Dentists in New York City are reportedly using "hawkers" to attract Medicaid cardholders in Harlem to their clinics with promises of cash, according to a story in the New York Post.
March 28, 2010
Okla. Senate passes fee-capping bill
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A bill passed in the Oklahoma Senate would prohibit insurance companies from limiting fees for procedures they don't cover. The bill, authored by the Oklahoma Dental Association, is now in the Oklahoma House of Representatives Public Health Committee.
March 28, 2010
ADA, CDHP analyze U.S. healthcare reform
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The ADA and the Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP) have both posted on their Web sites summaries of the dental provisions in the healthcare reform overhaul signed into law on March 23 by President Barack Obama.
March 25, 2010
AGD unhappy with U.S. healthcare reform law
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) is "disappointed" by the healthcare reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law March 23.
March 25, 2010
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