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On Jan. 20, Joe Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th president and after his speech took immediate executive actions. Included in the list was a regulatory freeze; President Biden signed an executive order halting the finalization of any currently proposed rules from federal agencies, including from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The freeze will allow Biden’s team to evaluate each proposed rule and make changes or remove them from the Federal Register and add 60 additional days of review for rules that were finalized but are not yet implemented.

The mission of NADP is to promote and advance the dental benefits industry to improve consumer access to affordable, quality dental care. This past month NADP made tremendous strides in fulfillment of its mission and the development of the association.

As the voice of the dental benefits industry, NADP advances your positions to multiple stakeholder organizations that impact business operations for plans and providers.

Find educational and informative content about dental benefits and the industry on WhyDental.org – a public facing NADP website designed for use by our members and the audiences they serve

Advocacy in Action (AIA), the NADP Congressional fly-in, is the association’s most powerful and effective federal advocacy initiative. AIA 2019 was a tremendous success, as attendance had more than doubled…

The California Association of Dental Plans (CADP) and NADP continue work in California on the dental Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) form required to be filed by dental plans this year with regulatory agencies. For additional details members should subscribe to the Government Relations Open Forum in Dental Interact (DI)for all updates.

NADP attended the NAIC spring meeting hosted this month in Phoenix, AZ.

The Government Relations and Exchange Policy Workgroups are developing comments in response to a CMS paperwork reduction act notice that outlines some technical specifications around an Exchange requirement for carriers to submit machine readable data for provider networks.

On June 29, 2015, NADP submitted comments in response to a CMS Bulletin on the development of an Out-of-Pocket (OOP) Cost Comparison Tool for consumers, which would display estimates of total spending for premiums and cost-sharing across health insurance plans on federal marketplaces. At this time, the tool will not calculate or display possible costs for dental services covered by standalone dental plans or Qualified Health Plans (QHP) that embed dental benefits.

MonthlyByte     August 2015   Federal Legislation Seeks Dental Changes This summer, U.S. Congressional Representatives introduced two pieces of legislation impacting insurance contracts with dentists and dental coverage in…