Kansas Health Institute News: Legislators Urged To Expand Medicaid Dental Coverage Currently the program only provides routine dental services for children and emergency services for adults. Those emergency services include extractions in the event of acute or chronic infection or in cases of injury so severe the teeth can't be salvaged. ... The cost of providing routine dentistry for all adults on Medicaid would cost the state about $11 million more a year, with about $4.5 million of that coming from state coffers (Shields, 10/10).

The Connecticut Mirror: Quinnipiac [University] Picks St. Vincent's As Primary Partner For New Medical School Under a five-year agreement between the two institutions, St. Vincent's medical staff will take part in designing the medical school's clinical curriculum and academic policies and procedures. ... [The medical school's founding dean, Dr. Bruce Koeppen] cited the hospital's "commitment to education; its emphasis on quality and patient safety; its support of our mission of primary care and interprofessional education" (Levin Becker, 10/10). 

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