Insurance,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 6, 2021
Judge shoots down Medicaid amendment altering senior dental care
The issue in contention is a decision by the state of California to change some of Medi-Cal's dental policies, including but not limited to "cutting reimbursement rates for periodontal care and instituting a new pre-authorization and X-ray process for institutionalized patients who required scaling and root planing," according to Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald's order.
Attorneys representing dental hygienists pro bono protected senior citizens' ability to obtain periodontal care in a victory against Alex Azar, former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The plaintiffs are Registered Dental Hygienists in Alternative Practice, and they go to long-term care facilities to provide mobile dental care to residents. They were fighting against a decision by Azar to approve changes to Medi-Ca...
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