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• ↓ California Dental Insurance Is Getting More Expensive While Dentists Are Getting Paid Less — Here Is Who Is Absorbing the Difference
• ↓ Two Paragraphs in North Carolina’s State Budget Are Confusing Everyone — Including the State’s Own Medicaid Dental Director
• ↓ The FAIR Plan Raised Rates Again and It Still Does Not Cover What Most California Homeowners Think It Does
• ↓ Emory Came to Central Georgia a Year Ago — UnitedHealthcare May Leave It on September 1
• ↓ Scientists Say This El Niño Will Be the Strongest on Record — Southern California’s 30-Day Flood Insurance Window Is Why August Matters
• ↓ Tennessee Has a 21 Percent Uninsured Rate and One of the Highest Fatality Rates in the Country — the Nashville Broadway Crash Shows What That Combination Costs
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"California has more licensed dentists than any other state in the country. It also has Delta Dental of California — the dominant dental insurer in the state’s market and one of the nation’s largest dental insurance companies. Those two facts sit alongside a third fact that explains why millions of California dental insurance policyholders are struggling to find an in-network dentist who is accepting new patients. The American Dental Association’s State of the U.S. Dental Economy report for the second quarter of 2026 documents a gap that has been widening…"

"When the state official in charge of dental Medicaid policy says he does not understand what the law means, North Carolina Medicaid patients who depend on dental coverage have a problem. That is exactly where things stand following the signing of North Carolina’s new state budget on July 7, 2026. Two paragraphs buried in the budget document appear to sunset — end — modifications to Medicaid billing codes for dental procedures performed at ambulatory surgical centers. Oral health advocates, dental providers, and Medicaid administrators are all trying to determine whether…"

"When private insurers stopped writing new homeowners policies in California — pulling out of high-fire-risk communities from Malibu to Grass Valley to the Wine Country — hundreds of thousands of California homeowners had one place left to turn. The California FAIR Plan. The FAIR Plan is the state’s assigned risk pool — the insurer specifically created to cover homeowners who cannot obtain coverage on the private market. It is not optional. It is not an insurance company that chose to enter California’s market. It is the backstop the state created…"

"Fourteen months ago, Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins officially became part of the Emory Healthcare system. The celebrations were real. The signs on the buildings changed. Two thousand five hundred employees became Emory employees. Three hundred fifty physicians joined the Emory medical staff. For Central Georgia families who had been driving to Atlanta for specialist care, the integraton promised something meaningful: academic health system quality closer to home. Now, if a contract dispute with UnitedHealthcare is not resolved by September 1, the UHC insurance that thousands of those same Central…"

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California Dental Insurance Is Getting More Expensive While Dentists Are Getting Paid Less — Here Is Who Is Absorbing the Difference

Two Paragraphs in North Carolina’s State Budget Are Confusing Everyone — Including the State’s Own Medicaid Dental Director

The FAIR Plan Raised Rates Again and It Still Does Not Cover What Most California Homeowners Think It Does

Emory Came to Central Georgia a Year Ago — UnitedHealthcare May Leave It on September 1

Scientists Say This El Niño Will Be the Strongest on Record — Southern California’s 30-Day Flood Insurance Window Is Why August Matters

Tennessee Has a 21 Percent Uninsured Rate and One of the Highest Fatality Rates in the Country — the Nashville Broadway Crash Shows What That Combination Costs