TDMR took the opportunity to send a few questions to the new president of the Association of Dental Service Organizations (ADSO) Emmet Scott about the results of our latest DMO survey. We received back the following thoughtful responses and hope … Read More
We are pleased to make public the results of our Texas Medicaid Dental Maintenance Organization Annual Survey 2020. This year 90 dentists took the opportunity to give us their views on the performance of MCNA and DentaQuest. Last year we … Read More
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office yesterday sent out a press release announcing a final judgment in the civil Medicaid fraud case against Dr. Richard Malouf. Here is the text of the release: AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced … Read More
Is it us or does Medicaid dentistry seem to get more attention in these reports than other specialties? Are we being sensitive? We couldn’t help but be struck by the fact that again complaints against Medicaid dentists make up only … Read More
Texas HHS-OIG published on their website June 24 an audit they completed on DentaQuest back on January 9. The audit found that DentaQuest had $1.53 million in “unallowable, unsupported, and overstated expenses on its Administrative Expenses FSR [Financial Statistical Report]” … Read More
Cecile Young has been named the new head of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission as the agency fights an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases in the state. Young, who has more than three decades of experience working in … Read More
At the end of April, a three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas ordered a malpractice lawsuit against the firm of Sommerman McCaffity Quesada & Geisler and Al Ellis, of counsel at the firm, to continue. The case … Read More
The Association of Dental Support Organizations (ADSO) is pleased to announce Emmet Scott, Community Dental Partners/National Dental Partners CEO, has been elected as the new president of the ADSO. Mr. Scott will succeed Michael Bileca of Dental Care Alliance, who … Read More
Just received this from Texas HHS. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will begin distributing $10 billion in a second round of high impact COVID-19 area funding to hospitals starting next week. Additionally, HHS announced that … Read More
UPDATE: The survey is now closed and we are tabulating the results which will be published next week. It has been a tumultuous year and we hadn’t really considered putting out our annual DMO satisfaction survey until now. Not many … Read More
TDMR received the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners July PDF newsletter this week. It contains the rule changes adopted by the board at their June 5 meeting and other important information.
The Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton sent out a press release Thursday that a Travis County judge had issued a summary judgment ordering Dr. Richard Malouf of Dallas to pay Texas back some $12 million for Medicaid fraud. The court … Read More
