A local family oral health advocate urges support for Florida's SMILES Act, which would expand dental services under the ...

Access is especially tough for kids in rural areas or whose families don't have a lot of money. Some dentists say a new ...

In the U.S., 27% of adults don’t have dental insurance, according to the most recent State of Or Equity in America by the ...

Dental clinic owner Pamela Van Drie needed a dentist who would go along with her plan to defraud Medicaid without asking too many questions. And dentist James Dye needed a dental office willing to ...

Florida is a state that did not accept Medicaid expansion offered by the Affordable Care Act. The excuses for this are vapid. The majority party did not want to do anything that would demonstrate ...

But Dr. Bill Collins, a Pikeville dentist who also practices at the Redbird Mission in Clay County, said when he checked Medicaid eligibility for patients, he found multiple errors for children as ...

Federal court opinions have noted that hospitals are not required to bill Medicaid for every individual beneficiary they treat, even if they generally accept Medicaid. Monument Health didn't bill ...

Hans Wirt of Deltona, Florida, had a heart attack while visiting relatives in South Dakota. The hospital that treated Wirt declined to send the bill to his Florida Medicaid plan, leaving him on ...

Another possibility is that understaffed facilities will force nurses, CNAs and other employees to spend less time per patient — already a growing problem in facilities that accept Medicaid.

Federal court opinions have noted that hospitals are not required to bill Medicaid for every individual beneficiary they treat, even if they generally accept Medicaid. Monument Health didn’t ...

Federal court opinions have noted that hospitals are not required to bill Medicaid for every individual beneficiary they treat, even if they generally accept Medicaid. Monument Health didn’t bill Wirt ...

On Christmas Day at the WaTiki indoor water park, Hans Wirt was getting winded from following his son up the stairs to the waterslides. Wirt's breathing became more labored once they returned to ...