Dental Practice: Page 596

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
New OSAP website features infection-control information
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures (OSAP) has launched a new website that gives dental professionals access to up-to-the-minute research-based information on infection control and safety in dentistry.
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
ADA questions healthcare reform's pediatric benefit
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A new mandate to extend dental benefits to children may not make much difference, the ADA said in a news brief explaining its position on the healthcare reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23.
March 25, 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
Mo. dentist to repay $550K for Medicaid fraud
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A Missouri dentist who created false dental records and substituted x-rays from different patients' files has been ordered to repay $550,000 for stealing from the state's Medicaid program, according to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.
March 22, 2010
ADAA launches online membership campaign
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The American Dental Assistants Association (ADAA) is now offering a new membership category, E-membership, and launched a campaign to open up its free E-membership to dental assistants all over the world.
March 22, 2010
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