Episode 23 - The Drill, MARCH 2026

About this episode

Ryan Dunn discusses recent workforce bills, Medicaid dental benefits, and peer review options for dentists.

Send us a review. In this episode, Ryan Dunn reports that two workforce bills have passed the House and Senate and await the governor’s signature. The pending Virginia budget proposed a $2,000 annual cap on adult Medicaid dental benefits and opposes a late-session proposal to raise the medical malpractice cap from $2.7M to $6M, urging members to contact senators. Ryan highlights member-only peer review as a confidential, dentist-led dispute resolution option and promotes VDA Member Perks sav...

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Dunn

Topics covered

• workforce legislation
• Medicaid dental benefits
• medical malpractice
• peer review
• VDA Member Perks

Keywords

• workforce bills
• Virginia budget
• Medicaid
• medical malpractice
• peer review
• VDA Member Perks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Virginia Dental Association

Places: Virginia

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