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Playing the Long Game with Value-Based Care

There is a broad consensus that adding value to oral healthcare is desirable. The...

Value-Based Dentistry Comes With Inherent Problems

Value in healthcare is the measured improvement in patients’ health outcomes compared to the...

Use Value-Based Care to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs

It’s clear that dentistry is not immune from challenges to traditional healthcare delivery and...

Adult Medicaid Recipients in Delaware Now Have Dental Coverage

Adults in Delaware who receive Medicaid will automatically get dental coverage as part of...

Dentists Now Have Until September 13 to Apply for HHS Relief Funds

Dentists now have until September 13 to use the Enhanced Provider Relief Fund Payment...

DSO Closures Cause Trauma in Texas

It’s a very troubling matter when any dental clinic closes without notice, but especially...

Become a Fee-for-Service Office? Not Me

I own an HMO (health maintenance organization), public aid, and PPO (preferred provider organization)...

Healthcare Paperwork Cost Americans $812 Billion in 2017

Healthcare bureaucracy costs Americans $812 billion in 2017, representing 34.2% of total expenditures for...

Office of Inspector General Calls MCOs’ Medicaid Reporting Weak

Corruption continues to plague public health as the Department of Health and Human Services...

AACD Launches Cosmetic Dentistry Residency Program

The American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) will launch a cosmetic dentistry residency pilot...