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In 2019 the NADP Education program earned high marks with an industry-specific curriculum designed to help members succeed via the Webinar Series and CONVERGE, the NADP annual conference.

NADP forwarded comments last week to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) requesting the ’emergency’ network adequacy proposed regulations be denied and that draft rules go through the formal rule-making process.

The dental industry represented by NADP and DDPA had a call with the Health and Human Services Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) and discussed the following topics (read more)

Opponent testimony on OH HB 95 on Non-Covered Services will be heard by the Committee on Health and Aging this Wednesday April 29, 2015.

NADP’s Commission on Advocacy Policy has the task of deciding on how NADP responds to the various draft regulations forwarded by the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies impacting the dental benefits industry.

In the latest round of Essential Health Benefits (EHB) news, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) published a proposed rule outlining the state’s benchmark selection and dental supplement. i.e. Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The proposed rule reverses the approach to dental from a previous exposure draft, which designated the dental benefits that were included in the medical benchmark Regence Direct Gold plan.

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This month, NADP and the Delta Dental Plans Association (DDPA) released extensive summaries of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid Managed Care Rule with specific information on impacts to dental benefits and the states.

July 2016 became one of the most successful months for NADP advocacy efforts. After three years of consistent campaigns, the Internal Revenue Service released an updated proposed regulation to clarify the dental calculation for the Advanced Premium Tax Credit (APTC). While IRS almost never revisits or amends regulations, NADP did not falter and instead pulled together a coalition of consumers, providers and carriers, which continued to pursue advocacy efforts, eventually leading to the recent IRS change.

The Government Relations Workgroup continues to monitor and review legislation of interest to the dental benefits industry, including a National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) model act and bills focused on prior authorization and network leasing.