Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation awarded more than $7 million to 38 organizations in Colorado to improve oral health equity.

Oral healthcare use and spending rates are lower during the first four years of life and in young adulthood than any other periods of life, according to findings published in The Journal of The American Dental Association.

Delta Dental of New Mexico will integrate the NovoDynamics dental insurance service into its dental insurance claims processing system, NovoDynamics said Jan. 12. 

Where dentists practice plays as big a role as experience in determining their income.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services implemented a base dental reimbursement rate increase Jan. 1.

National dental expenditures dropped 1.8 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to data cited by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

Houston-based human resources company Insperity has extended its contract for employee medical and dental coverage with UnitedHealthcare, Insperity said Jan. 3. 

Dental billing company eAssist Dental Solutions brought in $1 billion in insurance collections for dental practices in 2021.

A legislative attempt to expand dental coverage for Medicare recipients was stalled in October when a new version of Congress' reconciliation package left out the expanded benefit.

Revenue cycle management company Vyne Dental has acquired Onederful, a developer of dental software that connects practices with payers, Vyne Dental said Dec. 14.

HHS is distributing $9 billion in payments to healthcare providers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Dec. 14 news release.

A Kansas judge ruled in favor of member dentists who said Delta Dental of Kansas' board of directors stripped their power with illegal changes to its terms, the Kansas Reflector reported Dec. 10.

Delta Dental of Tennessee has promoted its CFO Jeff Ballard to executive vice president, the dental insurance company said Dec. 6.

Reimbursement rates for Illinois dentists have been increased under the state's Medicaid program, the Illinois State Dental Society said Dec. 1.

The American Dental Association's council on dental benefit programs is requesting dental insurance payers to consider rising costs when negotiating fees with practices, the organization said Dec. 1.

Dental insurance billing platform Zentist and Apex Reimbursement Specialists are collaborating on ways to help DSOs boost revenue, cut operating expenses and make timely collections, Zentist said Nov. 17.

Dental clinics throughout Missouri are struggling to provide care with the new influx of Medicaid patients since the program was expanded in October, Kaiser Health News reported Nov. 16.

Nierman Practice Management has launched a cloud-based billing platform for dental practices treating sleep apnea, TMJ disorder and oral surgeries, the dental billing and education company said Nov. 15.

Zentist has launched a platform to give real-time insurance claim payments to DSOs, the dental insurance claims platform said Nov. 8.

New Hampshire lawmakers have introduced two bills that would add preventive dental benefits under Medicaid, the state's third attempt at an expansion, Manchester Ink Link reported Nov. 8.