Why big trouble may be on the horizon for Medicaid patients By Melissa Busch, DrBicuspid.com assistant editor September 8, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to about one-fifth of Medicaid providers in private practice disenrolling from the U.S. program that serves patients with limited income by the end of 2020, according to new data from the ADA’s Health Policy Institute (HPI).
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Dr. Kwane Watson named first president of American Mobile & Teledentistry Alliance
AMTA launched in January 2020 as an international association of mobile dental health professionals and organizations. The group is dedicated to promoting and providing oral health and well-being for patients in mobile or virtual health-care settings. Dr. Kwane Watson is the founder and CEO of Kare Mobile, a consulting company and mobile dental practice that provides comprehensive concierge services.
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California’s Slippery Slope of Legislating Health Care
This would be first law in the nation to replace a treating dentist or doctor’s health care decisions with that of legislators By Michael Guirguis, July 21, 2020 2:29 pm, California Globe. Dr. Michael Guirguis is a licensed California dentist. He has been practicing dentistry since 1993. Few of us today were alive during the New Deal Era when the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis spoke about states being the laboratories of…