Recent Legislative Achievements
2025:
- Successful Passing of House Bill 1031, which focuses on various dental matters, including updating language written into state law decades ago, and the expansion of dental assistant and hygienist duties in state correctional facilities.
2024:
- Assignment of Benefits: Patient-directed Assignment of Benefits (AoB) requires insurers to honor a patient’s request to pay their dentist directly for services rendered.
- Network Leasing: Requires insurance carriers to notify in-network providers of intent to lease network and give providers option to “opt-out” of the leasing arrangement.
2023:
- Successful Passage of House Enrolled Act 1113 and Senate Enrolled Act 273
- Eliminated the $20 Dental Compliance Fund fee on licensure renewals.
- Secured record state investment to Indiana’s Donated Dental Services Program.
- Codified language allowing for the administration of anesthesia by a licensed physician anesthesiologist in dental offices.
2022:
- Successful Passage of Senate Enrolled Act 136
- Prohibits insurance carriers from setting fees on services not covered under a health insurance plan.
2021:
- Successful Passage of House Enrolled Act 10
- Updated the definition of what it means to practice dentistry.
- Reigned in the use of Virtual Credit Card reimbursements by insurance carriers.
- Allow dentists the option to administer vaccinations.