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Ninth District Headquarters Office - Hawthorne, NY

2025 Ninth District President

Dr. Renuka Bijoor

CE Registry is now CE Navigator

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ADA Update: a new login experience

We’re updating how you log in to your NYSDA and ADA account.

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RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY!

3 EASY WAYS TO PAY 1 ONLINE: nysdental.org/renew 2 MAIL: Return dues stub and payment 3 PHONE: 1-800-255-2100

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New Exclusive NYSDA Member Benefit

Life comes with challenges, but your new Member Assistance Program (MAP) is here to help. This free, confidential benefit is available to you and your household, offering resources and services to support mental health, reduce stress, and make life easier.

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Welcome to the Ninth District Dental Association

The Ninth District Dental Society was formed in 1909 and renamed to the Ninth District Dental Association in 2002. We have a membership of over 1500 dentists in 5 counties: Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam.

In its quest to serve both the public and the profession, the Ninth District embodies the highest ideals.

The mission of the 9^th District Dental Association is to serve and support its members and the public by improving the oral health of our community through Advocacy, Continuing Education and Camaraderie.

Have Fun Bowling and Socializing with Other New Dentists!

Don't Forget to Register!! OPEN TO ALL NEW DENTISTS!

Second Annual New Dentist Bowling Event!

Monday, April 7th 6:30-8:30pm

BOWLERO WHITE PLAINS
47 Tarrytown Road
White Plains, NY 10607

A FREE fun event, enjoy laughs bowling and food and drinks! Come mingle and meet other 9th District New Dentists!
Please spread the word to other new dentists.

CO-SPONSORED BY
Bota Consulting Group
MLMIC Insurance Company

To Register please email or call HQ 914-747-1199.

We Hope to See You There!!

Lana Hashim, DDS
Chair, New Dentist Committee

Renuka Bijoor, DDS

President

Latest News Around the Tripartite

NCQA Lists Accomplishments

Jan 24, 2025

Per the notice below, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has listed its 2024 accomplishments.

2024 was a big year for NCQA and health care quality. Let's look back at some major milestones from 2024 and the work we’ve done to advance our mission. We look forward to partnering with you in 2025 by providing insights, best practices and resources to help you on your quality improvement journey.

Top Resources

Health Equity Series

Empowers NCQA Accreditation customers to build infrastructure to sustain health equity initiatives beyond Accreditation.

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Navigating Cross-Sector Partnerships
Reference Guide

Cross-sector partnerships are a key strategy to address health-related social needs. Partnerships leverage the expertise and resources of each organization, and can bolster efforts to improve community health and well-being.

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Pew Charitable Trusts Antibiotic Utilization for Respiratory
Conditions Report

Understanding variations in performance in the HEDIS suite of antibiotic measures is an opportunity to identify areas for improvement.

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Digital Quality Hub

We launched the Digital Quality Hub to provide the latest news, information and resources to support health care organizations in their transition to digital quality.

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Most Read Articles

NCQA’s Proposed Timeline for Retiring and Replacing HEDIS Hybrid Measures

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Updates to Breast Cancer Screening Age Range for HEDIS MY 2025

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What New OMB Rules on Race and Ethnicity Mean for You

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NCQA Shares New Guidance for Digital
HEDIS Reporting
& Ethnicity Data

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What CMS’s New Interoperability Rules Mean for Quality

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Top Podcasts

The Move to Digital Quality Measurement

Rebecca takes an in-depth look at the sociotechnical shifts required for this evolution, and shares practical strategies to help organizations navigate this complex process.

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The New Rules of Data Sharing

Amol describes TEFCA as a voluntary national network—like the postal service—facilitating the free flow of HEDIS data. Eric highlights its bipartisan roots in the 2016 Cures Act, showcasing TEFCA as a public-private partnership and a model for standards-based improvement.

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The Future of HEDIS^®: Better Data, Better Measures,
Better Care

University of Chicago professor Dr. Marshall Chin shares a comprehensive, multifaceted strategy to improve health equity.

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Announcements

Health Quality at NCQA

NCQA and Whitman-Walker jointly developed an issue brief, Empowering Health Care Organizations to Improve Care for LGBTQ+ Populations, which discusses HIPAA protections for responsible SOGI data stewardship, why understanding these regulations is important and how organizations can better serve the LGBTQ+ community.

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Focus on Credentialing

NCQA updated its Credentialing Product Suite to help ensure that organizations can maintain a high-quality network for members and clients, while providing a framework for adopting industry best practices to promote accurate and efficient verification of practitioner credentials.
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Product Launches and Updates

New and Improved Quality Compass

This data portal gives you exclusive access to health plan performance and benchmarks to identify areas for quality improvement.

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Virtual Care Accreditation

This program is for organizations that offer virtual primary care and virtual urgent care, and for those that oversee virtual care networks.

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NCQA Events

Health Quality Forum
April 7–8

The NCQA Health Quality Forum explores how states and their partners are improving care for vulnerable and underserved communities, with a focus on health disparities in communities facing the greatest barriers to quality care.

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Health Innovation Summit
October 13–15

The summit is a four-day, in-person event with sessions focused on health equity, digital measurement and more. Join us in San Francisco, CA, in October!

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Top Education Courses

Race, Ethnicity, SOGI, Income and Language in Patient Registration

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SOGI Data LGBTQ+ Health Care: Quality

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PCMH Recognition Annual Reporting 2025: Continued Success

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Harnessing the Power of Diagnostic Data to Support CM, QI

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Introduction to HEDIS^®

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Using Goal Attainment Scaling

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Latest News Around the Ninth

Around the Ninth District

Webinar: "N.Y.S. Mandated Infection Control" Beginning at 6:00 pm

March 18, 2025 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Credits: 4 MCE - 4-Year Certification

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NY-9DDS - Web & In-Person – “Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation with Defibrillator”

March 19, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

New York State requires all dentists to maintain CPR certification. This course offers a 2-Year Certification.

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Putnam County Dental Society

March 20, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Septodont's Biodentine XP and BioRoot Flow products will be discussed. How to save the tooth from going into a root canal treatment, as well as doing better Endo work if the tooth needs a root canal. Also to be discussed will be Septodont's new product: Buffer Pro, which helps neutralize anesthetic and speed up the onset of anesthetics.

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