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Pew urges U.S. Congress to fund dental programs
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Pew Center on the States is urging U.S. congressional leaders to fund dental care measures in the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
April 27, 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
ADEA applauds passage of healthcare reform
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) said it applauds the healthcare reform legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23.
March 24, 2010
Ariz. axes Medicaid benefits for low-income kids
By Kathy Kincade
Arizona has become the first state in the U.S. to eliminate its Children's Health Insurance Program. The state's 2010 budget, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer on March 18, shuts down KidsCare, which provides medical and dental coverage to 38,000 low-income children.
March 18, 2010
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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
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