Massachusetts is requiring dental insurance companies to provide rebates to consumers for failing to meet dental loss ratio standards. Six dental insurance companies — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Insurance…
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Many health systems invest heavily in analytics but still wrestle with fragmented reporting, unclear governance and inconsistent data standards. Those gaps grow more consequential the moment a major analytics or reporting build enters the picture. Children’s Mercy took a different…
Sep 10, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Brett Generaux, Senior Director Data Governance & Analytics, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Warren Teachout, Director of Decision Support, Medical Informatics, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Michael Sayer, Senior Director of Data Science, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Glenn David, Senior Director of Digital Health, Nordic
- Anthonio Darling, Director Digital Health, Nordic
Several states have approved additional funding or moved forward with legislation aimed at improving the dental workforce. Four updates: 1. Nevada Senate Bill 495 would allow individuals to receive a dental hygiene license without completing a dental hygiene program that…
Hot Springs-based Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons recently experienced a data breach that may have impacted patient information. The practice learned of potential unauthorized access to its network April 7. An investigation confirmed that files containing patient information were acquired…
Ownership of a dental practice in Pennsylvania has changed hands, with a new dentist taking over, according to an Aug. 5 report from The Daily News. Micah Garber, DMD, is now the owner of Saxton (Pa.) Family Dental, with Michael…
Here are 22 DSOs that have merged with or have been acquired by larger DSOs, private equity companies and other organizations since 2020: 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Dental practices that properly invest in their teams will see themselves pull ahead of their competitors in the years to come, according to Sibera Brannon, DDS. Dr. Brannon, owner of Affordable Dentures & Implants in Sun City, Ariz., recently shared…
Healthcare consumers stopped benchmarking their experience against the hospital across town. They benchmark it against banking, retail, travel and entertainment, and they expect the same convenience, transparency, personalization and communication from their care. Most health systems were not built for…
Sep 21, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Veronique Au, MD, MMM, Associate Vice President of Ambulatory Medicine, Vituity
- Michael Antoniades, President, Ingalls Memorial Hospital UChicago Medicine
- Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., President, Oregon Health & Science University
- Hazelin H.L. Ngan, MHA, MA, CPXP, CPHQ, LSSBB, PMP, Chief Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
- Dwight W. McBee MBA, BSN, RN, CPXP, Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer, RWJ Barnabas Health
Dental school tuition has increased by 39.7% for residents and 30.7% for nonresidents since 2015, according to data from the American Dental Association. The ADA has tracked data on dental school tuition in the U.S. since 2015. Here is how…
Here are eight specialty-focused DSOs that have expanded their networks since May: 1. Houston-based Specialty1 Partners added a new joint venture partnership with Periodontal Associates, which has two locations in Ohio. 2. Chesterfield, Mo.-based Oral Surgery Partners added practices in…