The ADA sent comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services June 29 on two proposed Medicaid rules, one on fee-for-service and one on managed care.
ADA President George R. Shepley, D.D.S. and Executive Director Raymond A. Cohlmia, D.D.S. urged the agency to further improve transparency by requiring “more granular data within the dental category, such as utilization numbers, median fees, and service frequency” and to use “commercial data such as federal or state employee dental plan payment rates or FAIR Health data as benchmarks” for comparisons.
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