Maryland law requires insurers to pay doctors for EHR adoption

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a new law today, making it financially beneficial for physicians to implement electronic medical records into their practices. The new law requires private insurers to offer financial incentives if physician offices switch from their paper record keeping systems to digitized medical records.

Maryland officials have said this is the first state law of its kind to advance EHR adoption in this way. Read full story...

Dentrix and Easy Dental Service Packs

Did you know that DENTRIX/Easy Dental offers component updates or Service Packs after each new version is released to provide fixes for errors reported in the most recent DENTRIX/Easy Dental release? D-TECH wants you to know that It is extremely important that you check periodically to ensure that you have located and installed the latest service pack. This will ensure that you are receiving the optimum benefit from your practice management system. Visit the DENTRIX or Easy Dental website or notify your IT professional if you have not yet downloaded the necessary Service Pack(s) for your current DENTRIX/Easy Dental version.

Dentist announces congressional candidacy at leadership conference

Dr. Paul Gosar of Flagstaff, AZ announced his candidacy for the Unites States Congress at the ADA leadership conference. Currently there are two dentist serving in the United States Congress - Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), one of the WLC speakers, and Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.). Read more...

ADA Files Class Actions Against Insurance Carriers

The American Dental Association has written an extremely informative article regarding legal decisions and their impact on the dental community. Please see the following:

"The Division of Legal Affairs actively monitors and engages in legal issues that are important to or may affect ADA members and supervises litigation pertaining to ADA. ADA has filed three class action lawsuits against insurance carriers alleging federal and state law violations for improperly denied, delayed and/or reduced payment to dentists; undercut fees charged by "out-of-network" dentists without the data required to justify the reductions and a racketeering complaint against three of the nation's largest insurers alleging that they conspired to "deny, reduce and delay" lawful payments to dentists under contract to the plans." To view and read the entire article click here: