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Member News & Notices
Check here for updates on MDA announcements and notices, as well as
dental and health related news at the local, state and national level.
Updated
April 13, 2010
8/2/10 | Missouri Dental Association ADA Annual Session Right Around the Corner The ADA Annual Session brings together leaders in dental practice, research, academics and industry to present more than 245 continuing education courses over four days. October 9-12, 2010 in Orlando, FL.
7/29/10 | Missouri Dental Association MDA Focus July/August epub now available! In this issue: Fall months = full calendar! Basic Life Support Course at HOD. Staff interactions with patients influence compliance, satisfaction. Your Mouth Is Talking campaign game plan and progress report. Nitrous permits, auxiliary monitoring. Exactly whom does the broker represent? Buyer, seller or both? Discounts on products and services for you.
6/15/10 | Missouri Dental Association Public Education Campaign kits arriving in your mailbox now! MDA dentists should have their ?Your Mouth Is Talking' toolkits by now. Want a great idea to display your posters? MDA had them created in a standard 16X20 size so that you could purchase frames. Just today we hung our posters in the MDA board room and also, our series of facts sheets ? which we framed ? in the office ...front entrance. They make a great statement and were easy and inexpensive to frame.
6/8/10 | Missouri Dental Association MDA "Find A Dentist" now features photo, map and refer to a friend! The MDA has updated the "Find A Dentist" search on its website, making it a more useful to consumers. As a member benefit, your office contact information, location and website are all featured within the listing. Update your listing by sending in your photo and current web address to melissa@modental.org.
6/1/10 | Missouri Dental Association MDA Focus May/June ePub now online! In this issue: On a mission to define our mission, Healthcare Reform & Effects on Your Practice, CDHM Winners & Pass On A Smile Envelopes, Congratulations to 2010 UMKC Graduates, Heart of America Dental Symposium Registration and much more!
5/27/10 | Missouri Dental Association HOA Early Registration Deadline Extended through June 1! Register for Heart of America Dental Symposium today! The early registration deadline has been extended. Don't miss the large array of continuing education courses and fun-filled events for you, your staff and families at the Chateau on the Lake in Branson. Visit modental.org to learn more and to sign up.
5/21/10 | Missouri Dental Association Court Agrees With CIGNA, MetLife In Denying Dentists' Racketeering Claims Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings were the underlying reason a federal appeals court in Florida decided to toss out a class-action lawsuit against CIGNA, MetLife and Mutual of Omaha.
5/4/10 | Missouri Dental Association Change Missouri's dental Medicaid system to help patients Over the past several months, members of the Missouri legislature have had to make some tough decisions regarding our state's budget. Members have spent hours examining countless programs and searching out waste and inefficiencies.
Despite these efforts, the legislature ? particularly the Senate ? missed a real opportunity to make important changes to the state's Dental Medicaid system.
5/3/10 | Missouri Dental Association Topics & FAQ Feature: Contract Analysis Understand provider contracts before you sign: Contract analysis helps you make informed decisions. Visit modental.org/faq to find this and an array of relevant resources for your practice.
4/29/10 | Missouri Dental Association CDHM Coloring Contest Winners Announced The MDA Foundation would like to thank all the students and teachers who participated in the CDHM coloring contest. Congratulations to our top twelve finalists and to this year's winners. View the top twelve entries on modental.org.
4/19/10 | Missouri Dental Association IOM's Oral Health Initiative and Oral Health Access Meetings: Audio and Powerpoints Available The pages for the first meetings of the IOM's Committee on Oral Health Access to Services and Committee on an Oral Health Initiative have been updated. Each site contains the Powerpoint presentations made at each meeting, as well as audio clips of all open sessions. On these pages you will also find information on the next meeting for each committee.
4/14/10 | Missouri Dental Association MDA Focus March/April ePub now online! In this issue: Public Education Campaign Update, Is your practice keeping up with infection control requirements, HITECH, HIPAA and you: Your part of the stimulus act, Understand your provider agreement...before you sign, Has the economic storm of the last 18 months passed?, Heart of America highlights and much more
4/1/10 | Missouri Dental Association IOM invites ADA testimony on oral health initiative The Association will urge "a strong dental presence" in federal health agencies as the Institute of Medicine opens hearings March 31 on "ways to increase public awareness of the relationship and importance of good oral health to good physical health; promote prevention and improve oral health literacy to health providers and the public; and recommend ways to improve access to oral health care."
3/22/10 | Missouri Dental Association ADPAC announces candidate training conference in June ADPAC is committed to increasing the political effectiveness of dentistry and is pleased to announce that it will select up to 10 dentist members to attend a three-day candidate training conference in Washington, D.C., June 10 - 12, 2010.
2/26/10 | Missouri Dental Association Bills adjusting payments for health insurance claims pass House and Senate unanimously As the summit on national health care raged in Washington on Thursday, a pair of bills in Missouri that would more quickly put insurance money into the pockets of medical care providers unanimously passed the House and Senate.
2/19/10 | Missouri Dental Association Antitrust reform tops ADA's legislative priorities The ADA put antitrust reform at the top of its legislative agenda for 2010, the organization announced in an online bulletin February 16. In a meeting in Washington, DC, last month, the ADA Council on Government Affairs selected repeal of the McCarran-Ferguson Act -- which exempts health and malpractice insurance companies from U.S. antitrust laws -- as a key goal.
2/18/10 | Missouri Dental Association Business Going Green: Missouri dentists go green! "Small changes towards a big difference," is the motto of the Missouri Dental Association's current promotional campaign to involve dentists and their staffs in using best management practices for amalgam waste.
2/17/10 | Missouri Dental Association Many Missouri dentists favor single-payer system as more efficient for needy patients Not all doctors embrace the idea of a single-payer health-care system. But it's exactly what a lot of dentists want for Medicaid patients in Missouri. The Missouri Dental Association argues that putting all Medicaid dollars for dental services in one pot and setting up a single-payer system to run it would produce a more efficient and less costly system.
2/17/10 | Missouri Dental Association Dental health issues go deeper than columnist wrote Caitlin Hartsell's recent guest commentary on dental therapists raised important issues surrounding access to oral healthcare in Missouri. We applaud her efforts to bring attention to what the surgeon general has referred to as the "Silent Epidemic" of dental and oral disease.
2/11/10 | Missouri Dental Association New EFDA site launched! An education tool for both doctors and assistants, the site will help you learn more about the important role of EFDAs in Missouri and the steps to certification.
2/1/10 | Missouri Dental Association BMP program featured in ADA news The Best Management Practices (BMPs) program encourages dentists to help reduce the effects of amalgam waste on the environment. The MDA was featured in the ADA news for these efforts.
