HealthCare
What lies beneath
The new health care reform law will change the dental benefits market, but just how
won’t be known for some time.
by lynn gresham
The monster truck of health re- form left fewer tread marks on dental benefits than on most other types of medicalcoverage, but the long-term impact of the
new law for providers, brokers and plan
sponsors still is significant.
At press time in last month, dental in-
dustry experts were digesting and compar-
ing more than 1,000 pages of legal language
contained in the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act and the Health Care
and Education Affordability Reconcilia-
tion Act signed into law in March. “It’s still
surface stuff at this point,” remarks Vincent
M. Graziano, vice president and health
practice leader in The Segal Company’s
Boston office.
