Since 2022, providers and payers have worked to master the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process—its eligibility rules, batching limits, deadlines, and documentation standards. Now the next phase has arrived. Those changes are already reshaping out-of-network recovery. The fee…
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Irving, Texas-based U.S. Oral Surgery Management has hired Cheryl Polmatier as its senior vice president of payer relations. Ms. Polmatier has 30 years of experience in healthcare, including more than two decades focused on dental provider networks, according to a…
Rostyslav Stepanenko, DMD, plans to close his practice in Mansfield, Conn., at the end of this year, The Chronicle reported Sept. 22. Dr. Stepanenko will return home and volunteer dental services to soldiers in Ukraine after practicing dentistry in the…
Big Rapids, Mich.-based Ferris State University wants to expand its hygiene program in order to help address the state’s workforce shortages, upnorthlive.com reported Sept. 21. The university is seeking to renovate its allied health building to allow more students into…
Picture the quote a model scores cleanly that an experienced underwriter would stop on: thin data on a small group, a trend that breaks from the population, a circumstance the model has not seen before. AI is taking on more…
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Every health system leader wrestling with AI keeps landing on the same question: where does capability end and authority begin? This session unpacks how agentic AI moves from answering questions to taking action, and why healthcare data raises the stakes…
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The Woodlands, Texas-based Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers plans to open a practice in McAllen, Texas. The center is slated to open during the third quarter of 2027, according to a Sept. 22 LinkedIn post. The announcement comes shortly after…
NYC Health + Hospitals has received the 2027 William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Achievement for its system-wide dental residency programs. The award recognizes individuals or institutions that demonstrate transformative achievement in oral health education, with evidence of improved…
As dental organizations plan for the next five years, several executives are placing their bets on two things: a stronger workforce and smarter technology. Four dental executives joined Becker’s Future of Dentistry Roundtable Sept. 14-15 to discuss what success will…
Female dentists represented more than 39% of the dentist workforce in 2025, according to data from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute. The percentage of female dentists has increased each year since 2001, when female dentists made up 16%…
