Jeff Bingaman: “Senator Stabenow, I want to be sure that we clarify any confusion about the Finance Committee's intent when we adopted…”

“Senator Stabenow, I want to be sure that we clarify any confusion about the Finance Committee's intent when we adopted your amendment, C-7, on pediatric dental coverage. As I understand it, the Senator's intent was to ensure that commercial stand-alone dental plans could participate fairly in an exchange. When we adopted the Senator's amendment, we understood that children receiving coverage through an exchange would have the same level of benefits and consumer protections, including all cost sharing and affordability protections, with respect to oral care. This holds true whether they received pediatric oral care coverage from a stand-alone dental plan or from a qualified health plan.”