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Volume 2, No. 47, March 30, 2022
President’s FY 2023 Budget Released

 

Congress completed work on the fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget less than two weeks ago and on March 28 President Biden submitted his proposed budget for FY 2023, which begins on Oct. 1, 2022.

 

At press time, the President’s submission had been public for only a few hours. ADEA Advocacy and Government Relations will have more to say as we continue to analyze the budget, but below are some items of interest to dental education:

 

• For the Oral Health Training Programs, the President requests $40.673 million—

the same as the appropriation for FY 2021 and 2022.

• For the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research, the President requests $513 million, which is a 2% increase over the FY 2022 level.

• For the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Oral Health, the budget includes a request of $19.5 million, the same as the current year.

• For the Health Careers Opportunity Program, the President requests $18.5 million in FY 2023—an increase of $3.5 million above the FY 2022 appropriated level.

 

Congressional Appropriations and Budget Committees are beginning hearings on these requests immediately in hopes of completing action before the end of the fiscal year.

House Committee Holds Authorizing Hearing for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

 

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Healthcare Subcommittee held a hearing on 22 bills, including Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo’s (D-Calif.) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Act (H.R. 5585). This bill would authorize President Biden’s proposed medical research initiative and place the new agency outside of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A rival bill, Cures 2.0 (H.R. 6000), sponsored by U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.), places ARPA-H within NIH. However, at the hearing, Chair Eshoo announced that her bill had the support of Democratic leadership, which presumably means that her bill establishing ARPA-H as a separate independent agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but outside of NIH will prevail.

 

The House’s decision to support ARPA-H’s placement outside of NIH is in direct contrast to the ARPA-H authorizing language in the Senate’s PREVENT Pandemics Act (S. 3799), which supports the creation of ARPA-H within NIH. Unless the difference between the two bills can be worked out prior to the House passing its bill, the difference will have to be resolved in the conference committee.

 

The 2022 omnibus spending bill signed by the President earlier this month provides $1 billion for HHS to establish ARPA-H and allows the HHS Secretary to either

  • Establish ARPA-H as an independent agency outside of NIH, but under HHS or
  • Transfer the new entity to any agency within HHS, including NIH, within 30 days of the bill’s enactment.
Liberal-NDP Deal Would Provide Dental Coverage for Millions of Canadians

 

A between Canada’s Liberal Party and New Democratic Party could provide dental coverage to roughly 6.5 million Canadians. As proposed, the program would provide coverage to families with incomes under CA$90,000 and would not charge copays to families earning less than CA$70,000. Additionally, the program would be phased in over the next three years, before the Liberal-NDP agreement expires in 2025. Later this year, children under 12 would become eligible. In 2023 children under 18, seniors and individuals with disabilities would gain coverage. Full implementation would take place in 2025.
West Virginia Sends Licensure Portability Bill to Governor

 

On March 24, the West Virginia Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Jim Justice (R) that would increase licensure portability in the state. If signed, the bill would require the state’s licensing boards to issue a license by credentials to anyone who has a held a license in another jurisdiction for at least one year, if the licensing board determines the other jurisdiction has a similar scope of practice, education, experience and examination requirements.

 

Similar laws have recently been signed or implemented in , , , , , and .

Maine Legislators Pass Bill Requiring Medical Loss Ratio for Dental Insurers

 

Legislators in Maine recently that would implement medical loss ratio requirements for dental insurers operating in the state. If signed into law, the bill would to spend at least 80% of revenue on patient care and would be limited to spending only 20% of revenue to cover administrative costs. If medical loss ratios fall below 80%, insurers will be required to provide rebates to enrollees. The provisions of the bill are based on the Affordable Care Act, which establishes a medical loss ratio of 80% for health insurers.

ADEA Advocacy in Action

This appears weekly in the ADEA Advocate to summarize and provide direct links to recent advocacy actions taken by ADEA. Please let us know what you think and how we might improve its usefulness.

 

Issues and Resources

  • Provider Relief Fund Reporting
  • HRSA Dental Faculty Loan Repayment
  • ADEA regarding vaccines at the state level
  • ADEA on teledentistry
  • ADEA on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Dental Schools
  • ADEA policy regarding overprescription of antibiotics
  • For a full list of ADEA memos, briefs and letters click .

 

The is published weekly. Its purpose is to keep ADEA members abreast of federal and state issues and events of interest to the academic dentistry and the dental and research communities.

 

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B. Timothy Leeth, CPA

ADEA Chief Advocacy Officer

 

Bridgette DeHart, J.D.

ADEA Director of Federal Relations and Advocacy

 

Phillip Mauller, M.P.S.

ADEA Director of State Relations and Advocacy

 

Brian Robinson

ADEA Program Manager for Advocacy and Government Relations

 

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