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, [...]
This policy brief, provides a closer look at the implications of those ACA dental provisions and the specific opportunities to address the oral health of children with special health care needs.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 Presented by the National Oral Health Policy Center in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). View the Webinar Here. This webinar focused on the oral health provisions included in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) and the new health care reform. Participants learned about the [...]
Dr. Burton Edelstein, founder of the Children’s Dental Health Project and faculty member at Columbia University , discusses how the oral health provisions in CHIPRA and Health Care Reform represent a comprehensive systems change approach to oral health policy.