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RFP Released Last Week for Dental Services for Texas Children’s Medicaid and CHIP

Rendering of new HHS Building It is finally here, not with a bang but with a sigh.  It's been out over a week and not a whisper about it until today despite the fantastic anticipation by dental Medicaid providers over the last number of months, if not years.  But with the recent foofaraw and resignations over HHS contracts again, maybe that is wise. But, last week Monday, HHS quietly released their long-awaited Request for Proposals for dental management organizations (DMO) to manage dental services for Texas Children’s Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The RFP is some 132 … [Read More...]

Dental Providers Riled Up About DentaQuest Capitation Payment Plan

TDMR has received an email from a group calling itself "Texas Dentists for Fairness." Per their email, they are a group of owners of individual clinics from around the state  Other than that we don't know anything about them.  They are tremendously concerned by DentaQuest's "private conversations with some of the largest DSO servicing Medicaid in … [Read More...]

Xerox Can’t Blame Dentists in State Fraud Case Rules Texas Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Texas today rejected an attempt by Xerox/Conduent to point the finger at Texas dentists when it goes to court in an attempt to defend itself from at least $2 billion in damages and penalties stemming from its failed Medicaid orthodontic prior authorization process from 2004 to 2012. Wanted to make dentists financially … [Read More...]

Texas Medicaid Dental Maintenance Organization Annual Survey 2018

UPDATE: April 20:  NEW SURVEY IS OPEN After reviewing the responses from the previous version of the survey, we closed it because there was a large amount of doubt about the veracity of some of the answers provided.  The largest indicator was that 46% of those claiming they were Medicaid dentists … [Read More...]

Texas Health Official Resigns Amid Contracting Errors

Heather Griffith Peterson has resigned from her job as chief operating officer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Texas Health and Human Services Yoiks, here we are again.By Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune April 18, 2018 The state official who oversees information technology … [Read More...]

DMO Request for Proposals Coming?

TDMR has been asked several times recently if we have any knowledge of an upcoming RFP (request for proposals) for dental management organizations.  There have been rumors flying around for well over a year now that Texas Health and Human Services would be putting out such an RFP at some … [Read More...]

Dental care for kids who need it

The United States Dental Association Is Forming!

TDMR has been asked to inform its readers that a new association of dentists is in the process of being formed. The new association is to be called the United States Dental Association. Among the founding members of the new organization are Drs. Juan Villarreal and Robert Anderton.  Dr. … [Read More...]

Bye-bye Xerox, Hello Fuji

Two days ago, the iconic and troubled American corporation Xerox was sold to Japan's Fujifilm for $6.3 billion dollars, ending its solo history in this country. Losing money, under pressure The new company will be known as Fuji Xerox and, per Reuters, "become a subsidiary of Fujifilm, with … [Read More...]

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