HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 414 FILED ON: 1/11/2013
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2079
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
John W. Scibak
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to management of early childhood caries.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
John W. Scibak | 2nd Hampshire | 1/11/2013 |
Stephen L. DiNatale | 3rd Worcester |
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Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. | 12th Hampden |
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Ruth B. Balser | 12th Middlesex |
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John J. Mahoney | 13th Worcester |
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Louis L. Kafka | 8th Norfolk |
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Cory Atkins | 14th Middlesex |
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Michael D. Brady | 9th Plymouth |
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Kay Khan | 11th Middlesex |
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Ellen Story | 3rd Hampshire |
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Frank I. Smizik | 15th Norfolk |
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Sal N. DiDomenico | Middlesex and Suffolk |
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Benjamin Swan | 11th Hampden |
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Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. | 26th Middlesex |
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Steven M. Walsh | 11th Essex |
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Denise Andrews | 2nd Franklin |
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Denise Provost | 27th Middlesex |
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James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester |
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Jennifer E. Benson | 37th Middlesex |
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Sean Garballey | 23rd Middlesex |
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Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. | 34th Middlesex |
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Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera | 10th Hampden |
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James J. O'Day | 14th Worcester |
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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 414 FILED ON: 1/11/2013
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2079
By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2079) of John W. Scibak and others relative to the management of early childhood oral health caries. Public Health. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen
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An Act relative to management of early childhood caries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS or Executive Office) shall design a pilot program for the enhanced management of early childhood caries among MassHealth patients. EOHHS shall consult with the researchers involved in the ECC Management Demonstration Project at Boston Children’s Hospital, Holyoke Health Center and other sites, where feasible, on the criteria by which providers should identify high risk of early childhood caries in patients under the age of 5. EOHHS shall also consult those researchers on the types and amount of treatment that should be billable to the MassHealth program for effective management of the disease in those patients. These shall include, but not be limited to: more frequent preventive visits and fluoride treatments, as well as family education and training in self-management, as established by the researchers in the ECC Management Demonstration Program in their early childhood caries disease management protocol.
The Executive Office shall release a request for proposals with these design criteria no later than February 1, 2014 and select provider participants no later than April 1, 2014, for a start date no later than July 1, 2014. EOHHS shall widely publicize the request for proposals in the provider community, including but not limited to its mention in a bulletin to all childhood dental and pediatric primary care providers. Eligible entities shall include primary care providers co-located in the same facility with oral health providers who see the same patients. To the extent feasible, EOHHS shall select providers in both rural and urban areas in a wide geographic distribution across the Commonwealth.
The selected providers must agree to submit their results relative to costs, the incidence of cavities before and after use of the new protocol, the experience of pain before and after and the number of referrals for operating room procedures. The Executive Office shall release a report of those results to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means by February 1, 2017.