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The Ohio Dental Association is seeking nominations for its 2025 Awards of Excellence program. The ODA’s Awards of Excellence program recognizes those who offer distinguished service to dentistry and improve oral health care by offering treatment, outreach or education. Members and local dental societies are encouraged to nominate those ... [continue reading]

Last month I (and several other ODA folk) had the opportunity to attend the Oral Health Ohio 2024 Statewide Symposium in Columbus. For those who are unfamiliar, Oral Health Ohio is an organization based in Cincinnati whose mission is to advance policies and practices that integrate care and increase access to oral health services, prevention and ... [continue reading]

The 135th session of the Ohio General Assembly will draw to a close at the end of December 2024. Each legislative session in Ohio lasts for a two-year period or biennium, and 2024 is the second year of the current legislative session biennium. The 135th session of the General Assembly will go down as one of the most successful legislative sessions ... [continue reading]

In February, I wrote about a new law – the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) – that would require most dental offices to provide information to the U.S. Department of Treasury regarding their dental practices and beneficial ownership. The filing was required to be made before Jan. 1, 2025, or face possible penalties. For the filing, most dental ... [continue reading]

One of the more common calls to the Ohio Dental Association involves the proper way to report dental insurance claims when the treating dentist is different from the billing entity or billing dentist. Most of the calls were prompted by a dental practice bringing on an associate for the first time though some involve dentists who are going on ... [continue reading]

There’s something profound about opening the office refrigerator and finding yesterday’s dinner waiting to be today’s lunch. Those Tupperware containers, carefully saved and stored, represent more than just prudent food management – they’re a message to our future selves, a small but significant act of care for tomorrow. As dental ... [continue reading]

There is a really great slide that Dave Owsiany, J.D., executive director of the Ohio Dental Association, shows when he is doing his organized dentistry presentation. It essentially shows all of the different regulatory agencies and requirements that, as dentists in Ohio, we must abide by before we can even pick up a handpiece to do a patient ... [continue reading]

The ODA Council on Dental Care Programs and Dental Practice held a meeting with representatives from Delta Dental earlier this year to discuss insurance issues on behalf of all ODA members. Pictured: Dr. Jeffery W. Johnston, vice president and chief science officer of Delta Dental of ... [continue reading]

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A new report from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute shows the dramatic improvement state policymakers have made to the Ohio dental Medicaid program. Ohio’s dental Medicaid reimbursements have gone from near the bottom in the country to near the top as a result of a significant increase in funding starting earlier this ... [continue reading]