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Farmworkers survey highlights lack of oral healthcare
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The first-ever survey of farmworkers in Sonoma County in California found that more than a third of those surveyed reported needing dental care in the past year.
October 21, 2015
Week in Review: Anesthetic drugs; patients' insurance; Dental Excellence Awards
By Tony Edwards
October 8, 2015
Report: Dental care unaffordable even for insured adults
By Donna Domino
Dental care is the most common healthcare need that many insured adults cannot afford, according to a new report from the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center. Some 20% of adults with full-year health insurance say they cannot pay for dental care.
October 8, 2015
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Sheri's Solutions: 'You should not take the patient'
By Dr. Sheri Doniger
What's the first call you received this week? In her latest Sheri's Solutions, Dr. Sheri Doniger recounts her first call of a recent week: an irate father of a patient wondering why the insurance companies weren't covering his daughter's treatment.
October 4, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
United Concordia offers new insurance plans
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
United Concordia Dental is now offering a new, low-cost dental insurance product called Smile for Health -- Basics plans and has expanded the availability of two of its dental plans.
September 10, 2015
Sun Life acquires employee benefits, dental business
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Sun Life Financial announced an agreement to acquire Assurant's employee benefits business for a net investment of $975 million.
September 9, 2015
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