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Provider Manual Updates
Provider Manual Updates

The MCNA Provider Manual is your primary resource for important Texas Medicaid and CHIP dental program information, including documentation and claims submission requirements for all covered service codes. You can access the most current version of the Provider Manual online through your Provider Portal account.

As a best practice, please remember to check the home page of your Provider Portal account often for announcements regarding the Provider Manual. We post notification for all providers when a newly updated version of the manual is available for download.

MCNA Updates
Provider Manual Updates

The MCNA Provider Manual is your primary resource for important Texas Medicaid and CHIP dental program information, including documentation and claims submission requirements for all covered service codes. You can access the most current version of the Provider Manual online through your Provider Portal account.

As a best practice, please remember to check the home page of your Provider Portal account often for announcements regarding the Provider Manual. We post notification for all providers when a newly updated version of the manual is available for download.

The Main Dental Home
The Main Dental Home

Texas defines a Main Dental Home (MDH) as the dental provider that supports an ongoing relationship with the client that includes all aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way. A member can see his or her MDH Provider, or main dentist, at any location in which the provider is credentialed with MCNA.

A member can also see any MCNA-credentialed provider in the same "brick and mortar" facility in which his or her main dentist practices without changing the ...

Your Practice
The Main Dental Home

Texas defines a Main Dental Home (MDH) as the dental provider that supports an ongoing relationship with the client that includes all aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way. A member can see his or her MDH Provider, or main dentist, at any location in which the provider is credentialed with MCNA.

A member can also see any MCNA-credentialed provider in the same "brick and mortar" facility in which his or her main dentist practices without changing the ...

Helping Your Patients Quit Tobacco
Helping Your Patients Quit Tobacco

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identifies smoking and tobacco use as a leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. As an oral health care professional, you are perfectly positioned as a trusted healthcare provider to advise your patients about the urgency surrounding tobacco cessation and inform them about ...

Communication
Helping Your Patients Quit Tobacco

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identifies smoking and tobacco use as a leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. As an oral health care professional, you are perfectly positioned as a trusted healthcare provider to advise your patients about the urgency surrounding tobacco cessation and inform them about ...

Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants
Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants

Preventive dental services support healthy growth and development by helping children avoid the onset of caries and other oral disease. Catching oral disease early, or preventing it altogether, can go a long way to help your patients avoid more costly and possibly painful restorative treatment later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tooth decay affects about one out of five children aged 5 - 11 years. Additionally, children from low-income families are twice as likely (25%) to have cavities as compared with children from higher-income households (11%).

Dental sealants are a quick, easy, and painless preventive service that effectively maintains the oral health of a child. Correctly applied, sealants can prevent 80% of cavities in molar teeth, where 9 out of 10 cavities occur. The optimal time to apply sealants is ...

Quality Improvement
Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants

Preventive dental services support healthy growth and development by helping children avoid the onset of caries and other oral disease. Catching oral disease early, or preventing it altogether, can go a long way to help your patients avoid more costly and possibly painful restorative treatment later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tooth decay affects about one out of five children aged 5 - 11 years. Additionally, children from low-income families are twice as likely (25%) to have cavities as compared with children from higher-income households (11%).

Dental sealants are a quick, easy, and painless preventive service that effectively maintains the oral health of a child. Correctly applied, sealants can prevent 80% of cavities in molar teeth, where 9 out of 10 cavities occur. The optimal time to apply sealants is ...

MCNA's Compliance Program
MCNA's Compliance Program

MCNA is committed to maintaining the highest level of professional and ethical standards. To achieve our goals, we maintain a comprehensive Compliance Program to ensure we continue to provide the highest quality services in an ethical manner and in compliance with state and federal regulations.

Our Compliance Program was developed in accordance with 42 CFR § 438.608, and incorporates all relevant state and federal laws, regulations, and guidance issued by state agencies, CMS, and the Office of Inspector General. MCNA creates and maintains corporate policies and procedures that ...

MCNA Updates
MCNA's Compliance Program

MCNA is committed to maintaining the highest level of professional and ethical standards. To achieve our goals, we maintain a comprehensive Compliance Program to ensure we continue to provide the highest quality services in an ethical manner and in compliance with state and federal regulations.

Our Compliance Program was developed in accordance with 42 CFR § 438.608, and incorporates all relevant state and federal laws, regulations, and guidance issued by state agencies, CMS, and the Office of Inspector General. MCNA creates and maintains corporate policies and procedures that ...

MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!
MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!

Check out our online Kids Zone for oral health education flyers created by MCNA just for kids! Each flyer explains a different topic related to oral health, from bruxism to the importance of getting a professional dental cleaning. All flyers are available for download so you can print copies to give to patients and parents.

We also have interactive games and cool ...

Children's Corner
MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!

Check out our online Kids Zone for oral health education flyers created by MCNA just for kids! Each flyer explains a different topic related to oral health, from bruxism to the importance of getting a professional dental cleaning. All flyers are available for download so you can print copies to give to patients and parents.

We also have interactive games and cool ...