The Arizona Senate recently passed a bill that would allow the state to study the impact of comprehensive dental benefits for adult Medicaid recipients. Arizona only offers limited benefits for adults under Medicaid, including emergency care and extractions. Coverage is…
Author: Ariana Portalatin
The Mississippi Legislature recently passed a bill to join the the Interstate Dental And Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact The IDDHLC, created by the American Association of Dental Boards, is one of two different compacts aimed at improving license portability for…
Rhode Island will use $8 million from a new settlement fund to expand pediatric dental care in the state, WPRI reported March 17. The funds derive from an $11 million settlement between a construction company and the state attorney general’s…
Rick Workman, DMD, the founder and executive chair of Heartland Dental, was added to this year’s Forbes “World’s Billionaires List.” The 2026 list includes 3,428 billionaires, five of which are from the dental industry. Dr. Workman ranked No. 2,481 on…
Five dental industry leaders were included on Forbes‘ “World’s Billionaires List” for 2026. Forbes used stock prices and exchange rates from March 1 to create this year’s list, which includes a total of 3,428 billionaires. Here are five members of…
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Henderson, Nev.-based PDS Health has added Dentira’s procure-to-pay platform. Dentira consolidates procurement processes and vendors in one place that is integrated with an organization’s financial system. The platform is used by several DSOs, including Heartland Dental, MB2 Dental and Affordable…
Hackensack, N.J.-based MAX Surgical Speciality Management recently appointed Jeff Couper as its next CFO. Mr. Couper has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience for several organizations, including DSOs. He most recently served as the CFO of Jefferson Dental…
California, Alaska and Missouri are the three states with the highest number of dental professional shortage areas, with 1,231 shortage areas combined. Here are five key statistics about the workforce and shortage areas in these states, using the latest data…
The CEOs of the five largest DSOs have led their companies through several major growth milestones over the years, now overseeing a combined network of roughly 5,600 practices nationwide. Here are the CEOs of the five largest DSOs in the…
The American Dental Association recently made recommendations to federal officials in support of interoperability for dental imaging. The ADA submitted comments March 11 to the HHS Department and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in response…