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Non-Covered Services
• Dental and Optometric Care (DOC)
Access Act (S.1793/H.R.3461)
• Bipartisan legislation that allows
dentists to charge an amount that is
usual and customary for services not
covered under an insurance plan
rather than the insurer’s mandated
fee schedule
• Limits plan contracts to two years
unless a health provider chooses to
extend the contract for another term
• Includes a private right of action
provision that allows individual
doctors to take offending plans
directly to court.
