3.0.0 570 2023-01-11T13:28:18Z 2023-01-11T13:28:18Z Senate S 2015-02-25 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-02-25T22:03:54Z Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015 114 1055 HR 2015-11-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Identical bill CRS 2015-02-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2015-02-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2015-02-25 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2015-02-25 True C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2015-02-25 True F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN 2015-03-12 False Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Child health Congressional oversight Correctional facilities and imprisonment Dental care Department of Health and Human Services Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Emergency medical services and trauma care Government information and archives Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Health technology, devices, supplies Indian social and development programs Medicaid Medical education Medical research Medical tests and diagnostic methods Medicare Military medicine Minority health National Guard and reserves National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research administration and funding Rural conditions and development Student aid and college costs Veterans' medical care Health 00 2015-02-25 Introduced in Senate 2015-08-26T13:55:32Z Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover oral health services.

Increases the federal medical assistance percentage for oral health services, thereby increasing payments to states under Medicaid.

Directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to maintain a database of dental benefits available to adult Medicaid enrollees in each state.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish, revise, and extend funding for grant programs for:

  • educating nondental professionals about oral health care;
  • providing dental services in hospital emergency rooms or in community settings;
  • providing scholarships and education loans for oral health professional students;
  • providing oral health services to low-income and underserved individuals;
  • building, operating, or expanding dental clinics in schools; and
  • providing mobile, comprehensive dental services at locations that serve individuals who qualify for benefits under specified programs.

Authorizes community based dental residencies.

Authorizes specified agencies to conduct research on oral health issues through FY2019.

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make oral health services an essential health benefit.

Removes restrictions on the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide dental care to veterans (thereby requiring dental care on the same basis as other VA-provided medical care and services).

Authorizes the VA, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, and Indian Health Service to carry out demonstration programs to train and employ alternative dental health care providers in order to increase access to dental services.

Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the expansion of dental service coverage pursuant to this Act.

Directs the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the implementation and utilization of expanded dental service coverage under this Act and the demonstration programs authorized by this Act.

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