HCPro.com: Managed Dental Care

This monthly newsletter features 12 pages of business news and analysis on matters affecting every dental payer, provider, supplier, and DPM in the country.

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June 2008 (Volume 13, Issue 6)	view entire issue

The hygienist practitioner
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants who have a master's degree, or the equivalent education and training, are prevalent in the healthcare industry. Under a physician's supervision, these allied professionals examine patients, make diagnoses of minor illnesses, prescribe medication, and administer anesthesia. They earn salaries in the high five to low six figures and staff outpatient clinics all over the United States. They play a key role in the burgeoning on-site retail clinics at major chain pharmacies and department stores.

ADA shake-up
James B. Bramson, DDS, executive director of the American Dental Association (ADA), and Mary Logan, chief operating officer (COO), abruptly resigned in mid-April, apparently at the behest of the ADA board of directors. In what some see as a rare move for a lobbying group, ADA President Mark J. Feldman, DMD, an endodontist who practices in Queens, NY, was appointed interim executive director.

Other recently-published articles from Managed Dental Care:

Managed Dental Care 2008 index

Oral care’s glam mag

GAO: Young Medicaid enrollees at risk for tooth decay

A theory, in practice

A hothouse for dental care

NADP consumer survey reveals perceptions

Delta plans change policy on nonreimbursed care

The executive dentist

Making do

Striking from the Heartland

Oral care at a distance

Water tumbler

Three big insurers enter individual market

Gummed up?

Simulators likely to make inroads in production, education

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