TDMR has received a missive from a concerned dentist, which we are publishing.  It sums up the frustration and intense concern about DentaQuest’s recent actions in limiting its network, including a threat to remove over 100 urban providers.  This prodigious … Read More

It is a common misconception that your voice does not matter in big government.  Unfortunately, it is that misconception that allows big governments to continue in a state of blissful unawareness about the need for change in their policies and … Read More

In our last article regarding the HHSC Provider Finance department biennial review of Medicaid dental fees, we published a letter sent to HHSC by a dentist to complain about the lack of real increase in rates made. Hot issue We … Read More

Texas Health and Human Services Provider Finance quietly posted its much anticipated legislated biennial review of Medicaid dental fees early last week.  Well, maybe it was earlier, but it was only noticed early last week.  It was found tucked into … Read More

Our story on foreign-owned DentaQuest’s limitations on dental care access for Medicaid children in Texas has sparked outrage among dental providers, leading to an outpouring of angry comments. Many practitioners shared their frustrations and experiences, highlighting how the restrictive policies … Read More

In a stunning move last week, DMO DentaQuest sent out a letter (copy below) to its Medicaid provider network that as of October 15, it would “be limiting the number of additional” general and pediatric dentists into its network in … Read More

The Sunshine State now joins the growing list of states that have recently increased dental Medicaid rates. Florida’s commitment to “live healthy” for its citizens On October 1, several health care bills came into effect in Flordia called the ‘Live … Read More

REPUBLISHED FROM THE TEXAS TRIBUNE Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were … Read More

TDMR is pleased to announce that we received confirmation today from Texas Health and Human Services that, as of yesterday, DentaQuest is no longer paying a one-surface fee for non-interproximal two-surface fillings and will be reprocessing previously denied claims. Win … Read More

It’s a bad week for DentaQuest. Yesterday, according to an article in the online publication The Center Square, Louisiana legislators ripped into DentaQuest at a hearing of the House Joint Budget Committee as the Louisiana Department of Health had recommended … Read More

Remember we wrote that Texas should beware of DentaQuest and its corporate behavior, which cost the company $11 million in fines in Louisiana for Medicaid contract violations, which was recently cited in a report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office. … Read More

A recent article published by Becker’s Dental Review using Department of Labor statistics revealed that Texas ranks at the bottom when it comes to the number of dental hygienists per capita in the country. New Hampshire ranks number one with … Read More

In July, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office published a scathing audit review of DentaQuest’s performance as one of the two dental maintenance organizations with Louisiana Medicaid. It fined the company for its poor performance.  FYI, Louisiana calls them dental benefit … Read More

This week, a federal judge in Tennessee found that an algorithmic system similar to the one in Texas and designed by the same company illegally denied Medicaid benefits to thousands of Medicaid-eligible individuals. The TennCare Connect system, developed by Deloitte, … Read More

Justice for Medicaid dentists and orthodontists, whose lives, reputations, and practices were ruined in the great Texas Ortho Debacle, appears to be coming—slowly, but surely. Legal losses continue to mount for Conduent State Healthcare LLC, spun off from Xerox in … Read More