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Dental groups in last battle for healthcare reform
By Laird Harrison
As the bumpy, tortuous trip toward an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system approaches its end, dental organizations are making their last grasp for the steering wheel.
January 19, 2010
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CDHP chair appointed to Medicaid/CHIP panel
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro has appointed Burton Edelstein, D.D.S., M.P.H., founder and chair of the Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP), to serve on a panel overseeing the government's health insurance programs for the indigent.
January 17, 2010
U.S. Senate votes botax out, dental therapists in
By Laird Harrison
A compromise amendment to the U.S. Senate healthcare bill would allow dental health aide therapists to practice outside Alaska where supported by new state or federal law and eliminate the proposed "botax" on cosmetic procedures. The amendment would also extend the Children's Health Insurance Program to 2015.
December 21, 2009
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CHIP future uncertain in healthcare reform
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP), along with other children's health advocacy groups, is lobbying to keep the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) alive, at least for a few years, regardless of what new healthcare reform legislation comes out of the U.S. Congress this year.
October 25, 2009
Large co-payments permitted under dental CHIP
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Parents of children getting dental service under the U.S. government Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) may have to pay up to 5% of their family income, the program's director said this month.
October 15, 2009
U.S. Congress panel faults dental Medicaid
By Laird Harrison
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services isn't doing enough to stop dental disease in poor children, members of Congress said this week, citing a report by the Government Accountability Office.
October 8, 2009
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Calif. saves CHIP coverage for 600,000
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Moving money from one pot to another, the state of California managed to avoid eliminating dental coverage for some 600,000 low-income kids, newspapers reported.
September 3, 2009
Calif. drops kids from CHIP
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
California last week announced it would begin dropping children from its Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
August 16, 2009
ADHA testifies at Medicaid town hall forum
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) was among several stakeholders to testify August 6 at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Town Hall Forum on oral healthcare, the association announced.
August 5, 2009
Senator's job with dental plan under scrutiny
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The chairwoman of the Kentucky Senate's Health and Welfare Committee has taken a job with Managed Care of North America Dental Plans, a Florida company that processes and pays dental claims for Medicaid patients in Kentucky, and watchdogs are concerned this could be a conflict of interest.
July 12, 2009
Health reformers set sights on dentistry
By Laird Harrison
After years of trying to stay out of government programs, organized dentistry is now working to be included in government healthcare programs. Could dentists finally become part of Medicare?
May 18, 2009
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New law expands U.S. government role in dentistry
By Laird Harrison
An expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program will pour millions of federal dollars into oral healthcare for children. But along with the money comes new government scrutiny of dental care -- which could open the door to superhygienists.
February 24, 2009
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