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Provides Care as Part of Urgent Dental Care Program
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of the limited amount of funds and the number of
dentists who have agreed to participate in the
Urgent Dental Care Program, that as of right now,
they cannot accept any new providers. We thank
everyone who is participating in this program and if
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Dr. Nevin Waters
Provides Care as part of Urgent Dental Care Program
 Nearly
seventy patients without dental insurance were
treated this past weekend as part of the Kansas
Urgent Dental Care Program, a project of the Kansas
Associaion for the Medically Underserved (KAMU).
The program is aimed at
adults with one or more dependents in their
household who are Kansas residents making less than
$56,857. The new pilot project is coordinated
through KAMU.
"We saw almost seventy people during the two days,"
said Dr. Nevin Waters, a general dentists from
Olathe, said after what he called a Sunday on the
couch. "Our staff worked incredibly hard for those
two days to make this happen."
The services covered
through the program constitute most of the Medicaid covered
services reimbursed at the Medicaid rate.
While there is no benefit cap, there is a limit on total expenditure
of the program of $1.4 million. Reimbursement is provided
through federal grant dollars as part of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) .
During both days of treatment, Waters said that
representatives of KAMU were in his office verifying
the
eligibiliy of the patients.
"We
set up our program that it would be first come,
first served," Waters said. "Each day we
treated thirty and those on Friday that weren't
treated were told to come back on Saturday. On
Saturday, the names of those we couldn't treat were
then given to Chris English who was going to try and
refer them on to other dentists in the program."
On Friday morning, Water posted on his Facebook
page that the first patient arrived before he did.
"Just shows the need I guess," he wrote.
" Wish us luck and humor."
According to
Waters, the luck and humor weren't really needed.
"We had a great time, but we did work hard.
The people were very thankful and appreciative of
the work that we did."
Waters said that one
patient needed a full upper denture and a lower
partial and that her employer told her that she
couldn't come back to work until she had her teeth
fixed.
"All we can do is what we can
do," he said. "We put a note up on our wall
for our staff that said that. We got to make the
decision what we could do for our patients.
Not anyone else."
Several suppliers donated
supplies and services as part of the program.
Related Information:
Kansas Receives Grant to Provide Urgent Dental Care
for Adults with Dependent Children
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