Category: Advocacy, ODPAC & Legislation

At the 2025 ODA Day at the Statehouse, about 80 dentists and 30 dental students met with their state senators and representatives on May ... [continue reading]

The 135th General Assembly enacted legislation, Senate Bill 40, in 2024 that adds common sense fairness back to the dental insurance system. This new law prohibits dental insurance companies from dictating fees for services that the insurers do not even cover. Any new contracts entered into from Jan. 1, 2025 on, must be compliant with the new ... [continue reading]

As many of you know, starting in January of 2024, dental Medicaid reimbursements in Ohio increased on average by 93% per procedure. This across-the-board increase was the result of years of advocacy by the ODA and its member dentists urging policymakers to address the deficiencies in the dental Medicaid program. These reimbursement increases ... [continue reading]

In this month’s article, I wanted to focus on what the intent of this column is on a monthly basis and what services the ODA provides to members around legal questions and regulatory compliance. The Legal & Legislative column aims to highlight a legal or regulatory question that has been posed recently by a member or members of the ... [continue reading]

May is always a pinnacle month for me for several reasons. Obviously it marks the advent of the summer season, sunny days, end of school, bright flowers, etc. However, for me it holds a bit more from a visceral standpoint. You see, May is the month that houses Memorial Day, and a billion thoughts run through my mind and soul when I think of what ... [continue reading]

As anyone who is paying attention to the news these days knows, water fluoridation has become a hot issue once again. Certain policymakers at the federal level and in states across the country are questioning the value of community water fluoridation. Here in Ohio, House Bill 182, which was introduced at the Statehouse earlier this year, would ... [continue reading]

Day at the Statehouse, the Ohio Dental Association’s most important grassroots advocacy event, will be May 7 in Columbus. Day at the Statehouse gives dentists, dental residents and dental students an opportunity to speak with their legislators about issues important to dentistry and advocate for issues that impact their patients, their dental ... [continue reading]

According to last year’s ODA membership survey results, member dentists rate “lobbying on behalf of the dental profession” as the ODA’s highest priority. As practicing dentists, members understand that dentistry is a highly regulated profession and that it is important for policymakers to understand how their decisions might impact on oral ... [continue reading]

Day at the Statehouse gives dentists, dental residents and dental students an opportunity to speak with their legislators about issues important to dentistry and advocate for issues that impact their patients, their dental practices and oral health in Ohio. This year’s event will be ... [continue reading]

As 2024 exited on Dec. 31, so did the 135th Ohio General Assembly. A General Assembly that ushered one of the most successful legislative agendas ever for the Ohio Dental Association. During the past two years, the ODA was able to finalize a new law that increased the reimbursement rates for dental Medicaid procedures by an average of 93%, join ... [continue reading]