NADP On The Move in 2013

Focusing on both short and long term goals in 2013, NADP volunteers and staff represented your interests to multiple stakeholders and the media. Following are highlights of key meetings, interviews, articles and press releases which advanced the dental benefits industry.

Key Meetings

Advancing your health care reform issues

Because advocacy is one of core services of NADP, staff and volunteers advanced your health care reform issues by meeting with key senators and key members of the Federally Facilitated Exchange staff. In addition, NADP also represented our members at the following stakeholders’ meetings:

• AHIP Exchange Conference
• AHIP State Issues Conference
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• National Academy for State Health Policy
• National Conference of Insurance Legislators
• National Conference of State Legislatures

Serving as your voice and vote on industry standards

Leveraging its voting positions on key EDI groups, NADP built upon its decade of influential industry representation regarding dental standards by participating in the following critical organizations:

• American Dental Association (ADA) Code Maintenance Committee Meeting
• ADA Standards Committee on Dental Informatics (SCDI), Feb 18-20
• Dental Quality Alliance
• International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
• Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
• X12

Representing your interests with Key Stakeholders

NADP advanced oral health and HCR objectives with a wide variety of industry stakeholders  with presentations to:

• American Association of Dental Consultants
• American Dental Association
• American Dental Education Association
• Association of Healthcare Journalists
• California Association of Dental Plans
• Group Underwriters Association of America
• Louisiana Underwriters
• National Association of Health Underwriters
• U.S. National Oral Health Alliance

Media Highlights

Media interest in dental benefits was strong in 2013. Highlights of key interviews and press releases include:

Interviews

Kaiser Health News – Reporter Mary Agnes Carey interviewed NADP Executive Director Evelyn Ireland regarding the pediatric dental benefit.

CNNMoney.com – Reporter Jose Pagliery interviewed Evelyn F. Ireland, NADP Executive Director, regarding how medical policies outside the exchanges must include dental for children now that pediatric oral care as an Essential Health Benefit.

InsuranceQuote.com  - NADP provided reporter Leah Carlson background materials on what consumers should expect under the Affordable Care Act.

­ LA Times – Reporter Lisa  Zamosky interviewed NADP Executive Director Evelyn F. Ireland, CAE, regarding the impacts of health care reform on dental benefits.

New York Times –ACA tax issues and the pediatric dental benefit (Reporter Catherine St. Louis)

Medscape Medical News – NADP Executive Director Evelyn F. Ireland, CAE, was quoted in Laird Harrison’s article, Advocates Protest Affordable Care Act Dental Regulations.  The article explored estimates about the number of people who will be covered under ACA.

Money Magazine – background regarding annual and orthodontia lifetime maximums

Politico – NADP Executive Director Evelyn F. Ireland was quoted in an article by Kyle Cheney regarding the impact of the Affordable Care Act on dental benefit plans.

Wall Street Journal – An article by Jennifer Corbett Dooren focused on equitable consumer access to dental coverage on and off the Exchanges under the ACA and featured quotes from NADP Executive Director Evelyn F. Ireland.

The Wall Street Journal         --Reporter Jen Wieczner interviewed and featured NADP Executive Director Evelyn F. Ireland, CAE, in her article about the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules on dental coverage in the US.

Wall Street Journal – Tips for Consumers Purchasing Pediatric Dental On Exchange, reporter: Kristen Gerencher

Washington Post / Kaiser Health News  - Reporter Michelle Andrews quoted NADP Executive Director Evelyn Ireland in the article, Health-care law requires additional dental benefits for children.

Washington Post –Health policy reporter Sandhya Somashekhar interviewed NADP Executive Director Evelyn Ireland about the recent debate on pediatric dental benefits and the health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

NADP Press Releases

NADP Press Release – NADP released “Commercial Dental Benefits Enrollment Jumps Dramatically in 2012,” which highlighted the 3% increase (11 million lives) in dental benefits at the end of 2012. The release appeared on numerous websites including MarketWatch and Yahoo Finance and several top-20 markets including Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Fort Worth, Kansas City, and Oakland.

NADP Press Release – NADP released “NADP Publishes Consumer Shopping Tips for Dental Coverage in Marketplaces,” which provided examples of the various pediatric dental benefit options in the exchanges. The release appeared on numerous media outlets including Anchorage Daily News, Baltimore WJZ, Houston Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune and WCCO-TV, Sacramento Bee and CBS stations in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and San Francisco.