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Texas HHS-OIG Issues Fraud and Abuse Prevention Advisory about Dental Marketing

Yesterday, HHS-OIG issued an update on its activities.  Among other things, it had a link to a fraud and abuse prevention advisory about dental marketing schemes in which hired marketers find and steer Medicaid eligible children into treatment via their parents by offering cash or gift cards. It is a sad thing that some dental practices cannot follow the rules and harm the profession's reputation with such conduct. Here is the entire newsletter. OIG Update Welcome to the May 2019 edition of OIG Update. This monthly newsletter from the Texas Health and Human Services Office of … [Read More...]

Texas HHS: No DMOs Chosen Yet for New Medicaid Contract

The RFP for Texas Medicaid dental services went out October 1, 2018, with the deadline for submissions November 30.  More than five months have gone by and there is an anticipated contract start date of September 2.  There has been no news about the contract or possible awardees. So TDMR contacted Texas HHS about 10 days ago to see if anything was … [Read More...]

TDMR Announces 2019 DMO Satisfaction Survey

Here were are in 2019. DMOs started in 2012 without RFP Medicaid dental managed care in Texas began in early 2012 as a government response to the multi-million dollar orthodontic spending debacle that erupted in 2011 which also provided the impetus for the formation of TDMR (Dental Medicaid providers were being unfairly accused of fraud without due … [Read More...]

HHS-OIG Releases Latest Quarterly Report

TDMR received an email update from the Texas Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General this week.  Although regular quarterly reports have been continually generated by the agency since the resignation of Stuart Bowen as IG in 2017, this is the first email notification we have received about one in quite a long time. Previous quarterly … [Read More...]

More Dentists Left Texas Medicaid Than Joined in 2018

The number of dentists who participate in Texas Medicaid dropped last year, the first time in at least a decade. Earlier similar request in 2016 This revelation comes from a spreadsheet compiled by Texas Health and Human Services responsive to an open record request from TDMR.  TDMR made a similar request in 2016 and wanted to get the latest … [Read More...]