What Does
PDA Do for You?
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The Pennsylvania Dental Association provides Legislative Advocacy
value for our members with a wide range of PDA is at the forefront of legislative
initiatives to improve the dental practice
environment in Pennsylvania for both
dentists and patients. We advocate on
our members’ behalf for these important
insurance reforms, and scope of practice
and access to care initiatives:
services – a lengthy list much too extensive to
illustrate on a few pages of this issue of the
Journal. We have summarized a handful of the
services that benefit members in your day-to-day
lives, giving you a glance at how PDA works to
enhance your practice environment and also
promote the dental profession in the public arena.
n Assignment of benefits
n Health practitioner student loan
forgiveness and tangential loan
mitigation issues.
n Increased funding in the Medical
Assistance program for dental providers.
PDA took the lead in a health care
provider coalition lobbying for HB 2241,
legislation limiting the time frame in
which insurers may retroactively review
and deny claims to 24 months, with
some exceptions. The General Assembly
passed HB 2241 on its last day of the
2015-2016 session and it was signed into
law by Governor Wolf.
We are off to a strong start for legislative
priorities in the 2017-2018 session, with a
new assignment of benefits bill (SB 373)
having been recently introduced in
mid-February by Sen. John Eichelberger.
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