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Bill would use Medicaid excess funds to repay dental school loans for dentists who treat Medicaid patients
Summary
Sen. Beau Ballard introduced LB 27 to authorize loan repayment contracts—up to $60,000 per dentist—tied to serving a threshold share of Medicaid patients; the proposal would use the Medicaid managed care excess profit fund, and sponsors said it aims to recruit dentists willing to participate in Medicaid.
Sen. Beau Ballard told the Health and Human Services Committee that LB 27 would create a pilot incentive program to increase access to dental care for Medicaid enrollees by using the existing Medicaid managed care excess profit fund to pay down student loans for early‑career dentists.
Under the bill as explained to the committee, the Rural Health Advisory Commission (operating under the Professional Incentive Act structure) could enter contracts with early practicing dentists and pay up to $60,000 per dentist…
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