• Home
  • News
    • Politics / Govt
    • Legislature
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Archives
  • Sports
    • Badgers
    • Packers
      • Titletown Report
    • Brewers
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Wisconsin Radio Network

Wisconsin News and Sports

You are here: Home / Health / Medicine / Dentists say state needs to fill funding cavity

Dentists say state needs to fill funding cavity

June 7, 2010 By Brian Moon

Dentists say lower income people in Wisconsin are not receiving the care they need due in part with inadequate funding from the state. Dr. Kent Vandehaar, President of the Wisconsin Dental Association, says in his private practice he gets shortchanged by the state when seeing BadgerCare patients. “Typically I get paid 33 percent of my normal fee and my overhead is 65 percent.”

Vandehaar says dentists are very caring professionals but must limit the number of patients on subsidized care in order to stay in business and unlike other fields of medicine, dentists aren’t hiking the rates for private sector patients to make up for that loss.

The WDA is advocating for proper reimbursement funding, an issue they’ve been working on for decades. “We are always told there is no money. I personally feel that it’s a matter of priorities…They (policymakers) just need to make this their top priority”

Like other medical groups, the WDA unsuccessfully pushed for more Medicaid funding during the federal health care reform debate.

A Wisconsin Dental Workforce Study from January showed a gap in percentage of low-income individuals who access dental care compared to those with higher incomes or private sector coverage.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, Legislature



Featured Stories

Big Ten Men’s & Women’s basketball Tournaments to Allow Limited Fan Attendance

Brewers to open season with fans

Report: Former Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to sign with Brewers

Seven Badgers honored by the WCHA

Panthers rally to upset Wright State in Horizon League quarterfinals

TwitterFacebook

Sports Headlines

Big Ten Men’s & Women’s basketball Tournaments to Allow Limited Fan Attendance

Brewers to open season with fans

Report: Former Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to sign with Brewers

Seven Badgers honored by the WCHA

Panthers rally to upset Wright State in Horizon League quarterfinals

More Sports

Tweets by @WRN

Get our news delivered to your inbox:

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC