State policymakers are faced with making decisions about how to improve the health of their constituents and access to care while dealing with diminishing state budgets. Over the last decade the health care system has shifted to a focus on the “Triple Aim” to improve care, improve health, and reduce costs, with the greatest developments [...]
May 17, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
The emergence of various dental quality initiatives within the federal government and the private sector highlight a recent shift in the assessment of how oral health may be achieved. This document is a summary of a one-day meeting hosted by The Policy Center on July 13, 2011. This opening discussion was intended to provide a [...]
Dec 08, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
This brief provides a summary of the CHIP dental benefit changes under CHIPRA and examines the states that had voluntarily sought federal approval of current benefits, or made changes to their CHIP dental benefits as of September 2011.
Dec 05, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers providing coverage through the newly established Exchanges to offer pediatric dental coverage as part of the Essential Benefits Package. Child advocates have applauded this provision because this law will allow nearly all legally residing children to have access to dental coverage. However, for most policymakers, [...]
Nov 14, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
After convening two work groups of dental and health communications experts facilitated by Burness Communications, the Policy Center is pleased to present a consensus document containing the common themes and messages developed by the work group participants.
Sep 20, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
February 15, 2011 Meg Booth presented on the linkage between current and future federal initiatives in oral health and Title V programs at the 2011 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Conference. The purpose of this presentation was to discuss federal trends in oral health policy that impact MCH populations, identify new opportunities for [...]
Feb 28, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
This brief provides a summary of the CHIP dental benefit changes under CHIPRA and examines the states that had voluntarily sought federal approval of current benefits, or made changes to their CHIP dental benefits as of September 2011.
Dec 05, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) developed an oral health module for their recently created Health IT for Children Toolbox. This module provide stakeholders with information, tools, and resources that illustrate the importance of pediatric oral health, how the stakeholders can impact oral health, and how health IT can facilitate the delivery of high [...]
Sep 19, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Dental sealants are important, valuable, effective, and the answer to years of failed efforts to prevent cavities in the biting surfaces of susceptible permanent teeth. Concern about the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in some sealant products is small (compared, for example, to frequent use of a plastic water bottle) and can be mitigated by attention to [...]
Oct 11, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post