HHS and the Justice Department have launched a six-month pilot letting healthcare companies resolve self-disclosed False Claims Act violations through a coordinated civil release. Five notes for dental leaders:
Revenue Cycle Management
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson will lead the effort to pass the Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act in the next Congress. The bill would repeal the statutory exclusion that currently prohibits Medicare from covering most dental, vision and hearing…
Every patient brings a different set of circumstances to the dental office. While treatment approaches vary, how patients pay for care can be a deciding factor. The average dental practice reports that as many as 55% of treatment plans go…
States save only about 20 to 50 cents for every $1 they cut from Medicaid dental spending, depending on their federal matching rates, according to a study published Oct. 16 in JAMA Health Forum. The authors analyzed Medicaid fee-for-service dental…
Here are five recent updates pointing to shifts in how dentists are interacting with insurers and other trends in the field: 1. Dental advocates have helped pass 400 dental insurance reform laws across the country over the last few years,…
Advertisement
Nine in 10 voters support Medicare dental benefits, according to a national poll conducted by the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. The organization partnered with Marketing for Change to create this poll, which used a mixed-methods approach and included an…
About 13% of Americans did not get needed dental care in the past year because of the cost, more than twice the rate for medical care, prescription drugs or mental health care, according to an analysis by the American Dental…
San Francisco-based Zentist has launched Vault, a lockbox automation solution designed to help dental organizations automate the receipt, processing, deposit and reconciliation of insurance checks. Built within Zentist’s Remit AI platform, Vault provides a dedicated lockbox that receives insurance checks…
From new pieces of legislation to states increasing their dental Medicaid budgets, here are 20 updates on the dental insurance industry that dentists and DSO leaders should know, as reported by Becker’s during the third quarter of 2026. Note: This…
Advantage Dental Services recently agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle allegations that it improperly billed Oregon’s Medicaid program. The dental plan allegedly billed Medicaid for phone calls to patients that were recorded as nutrition and oral hygiene counseling but…