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Entries in Health Care Reform (12)

Thursday
Jan032013

FREE CDE OFFERED AT 2013 DENTAL ACTION DAY

WSDA is proud to offer one hour of continuing education at Dental Action Day for the 2nd consecutive year. This year's topic will once again be Health Care Reform and will feature Brad Finnegan from the Washington Health Benefit Exchange.

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Wednesday
Dec262012

Health Care Reform Webinar Now Available

Last week's webinar on Health Care Reform is now available online here. This webinar, presented by WSDA's Director of Government Affairs Bracken Killpack, provides an overview of how health care reform will impact the practice of dentistry and small business

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Tuesday
Dec182012

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS - NO MANDATE IN 2014

Dental offices may have heard rumors about a federal manadate that requires dentists to begin utlizing electronic health records or have "paperless" offices by 2014.  Another rumor is that dentists must be able to create and transmit digital radiographs by 2014.

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Monday
Dec172012

Medical Device Tax Update

An update from the American Dental Association on the Federal Medical Device Excise Tax.

There are still many unanswered questions about how the medical device excise tax, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, will be applied.  But based on current information obtained by the ADA there are a number of things that can be said that will help dentists and their patients navigate the quagmire:

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