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February 5, 2010
2010 Symposium Information |
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MSDA is pleased to invite you to attend the 2010 MSDA Medicaid Symposium, scheduled to take place Saturday and Sunday, April 24th-25th, 2010 in St. Louis, Missouri. The Symposium is being held in conjunction with the 2010 National Oral Health Conference, April 26th-28th, 2010. Due to an increased interest in Medicaid programming, the Symposium will begin this year at 1:25 pm on Saturday afternoon and run through Sunday at 5:00 pm.
Highlights from this year’s Symposium include:
- Two sessions on the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
- Insure Kids Now
- Dental Quality Measures
- Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women
- CMS Working Session
- MSDA Annual Business Meeting (Sunday)
- Roundtable: Nuts and Bolts of Medicaid (Monday)
An additional Medicaid session will be held during the NOHC on Monday, April 26th, addressing access to Medicaid data via the MSIS State Summary DataMart.
ASTDD National Oral Health Leadership Institute is scheduled to kick off this year on Saturday, April 24th at 1:00 PM. For the first time, MSDA members will be invited to participate. State teams with one member from each ASTDD/MSDA organization will be eligible to apply. MSDA Members should know in advance that this kick-off session will be held concurrent to the MSDA Saturday Symposium Sessions and should thus consider this when completing and submitting Symposium registration. Download the application. 
Register online for the Medicaid Symposium in conjunction with the 2010 National Oral Health Conference.
Travel support is available to current 2010 MSDA Members (see below *) on a first-come, first-served basis. A membership form is online. The maximum travel allowance this year is $900.00 per person. Those wishing to request travel support must complete and submit a Funding Request for Travel Support form by March 1, 2010.
Read more in the 2010 MSDA Symposium Agenda. I look forward to seeing you all at our annual session.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Birdwell, D.D.S.
MSDA Chairperson
* "Current 2010 members” refers to those MSDA Members who have paid their 2010 membership dues beginning January 2010. Join or renew. 
2010 National Oral Health Conference – Now Accepting Registrations
Registration for both the MSDA Symposium and the National Oral Health Conference is online. You must register for the National Oral Health Conference in order to make your hotel reservation at the St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark.
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