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Relating to coverage of treatment for congenital dental abnormalities under the Medicaid program
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services would have to make sure the Medicaid dental plan for children covers treatments for certain mouth and tooth problems people are born with. These issues include things like cleft lips, extra teeth, or teeth that do not grow in correctly due to genetics. This change specifically affects children enrolled in the Medicaid dental wellness plan.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of health and human services to require coverage for children under the Medicaid program dental wellness plan kids for the treatment of congenital dental abnormalities. The bill defines “congenital dental abnormalities” as genetic mouth or dental abnormalities or anomalies that result in problems, dysfunction, or disease of oral tissues and dentition caused by defective genes, and include cleft lip and cleft palate, anodontia and hypodontia, amelogenesis imperfecta and dentinogenesis imperfecta, supernumerary teeth, malocclusion, periodontal disease, and gingival fibromatosis.
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- HF 660 Relating to coverage of treatment for congenital dental abnormalities under the Medicaid p…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
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