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Kaiser expert touts MLPs during ADA webinar

By Donna Domino

Midlevel providers (MLPs) can help dentists expand their Medicaid practices without shrinking their private-pay practices, the associate director of a Kaiser commission on Medicaid said during a recent ADA webinar focusing on a new Health Policy Institute report on dental care utilization.

September 30, 2015

ADA brief: More children in Medicaid seeing a dentist

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The gap in dental care utilization in the U.S. narrowed between children enrolled in Medicaid and those with private dental benefits from 2005 to 2013, but a large gap remains between adults in those categories, according to a new research brief by the ADA Health Policy Institute.

September 28, 2015

uBiome makes donations for oral disease prevention

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Biotech start-up uBiome is donating to Oral Health America's Smiles Across America program and making other donations to support oral disease prevention.

September 24, 2015

Dominion buys DentaQuest Mid-Atlantic, Virginia

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dominion Dental Services announced it will acquire DentaQuest Mid-Atlantic and DentaQuest Virginia.

September 24, 2015

Beam uses data and design to modernize dental insurance

By Theresa Pablos

Beam Technologies, the company behind an Internet-connected toothbrush, is now using data and design to change the status quo of dental insurance. In late August 2015, the company officially rolled out its group insurance plan, which approaches dental insurance with technology-first thinking.

September 14, 2015

Ill. budget impasse stops dental claims processing

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Delta Dental of Illinois announced that the state of Illinois has stopped funding dental claims for the Quality Care Dental Plan (QCDP).

September 13, 2015