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2026 Ninth District President

Dr. Bharat Joshi

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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 1200 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 9th 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.

The 9th Board approved creating a High School Career Day video to promote the dental field as a whole! Here's the link: 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kk10wFBk5MXT4CeitvzzCSXKPrVFzz73/view?usp=drive_link

 

Please share it with any Principal or Guidance Counselor you may have a relationship with!

Come join your colleagues!

 

New Dentist Reception

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
6:30 - 9:00 pm

Captain Lawrence Brewery
444 Saw Mill River Rd
Elmsford, NY  10523
914-741-2337

To register, email:
stephan@ninthdistrict.org

We Hope to See You There!!

Bharat Joshi, D.D.S.
President

Lana Hashim, D.D.S.
President - New Dentist Committee

And don't forget to register for Dr. Amrita Patel's CE Course:

Live Webinar:  “Demystifying Dental Benefits” Tuesday, September 29, 2026 – 7-9 pm (Objective 12 Practice Management / 2 CE)

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 Instructor:           Amrita Patel, D.D.S.

 Synopsis:  Dental insurance touches every single patient conversation and every line of your P&L, yet most dentists, regardless of how long they've been in practice, were never actually taught how the system works. This course pulls back the curtain on dental benefits: how plans are structured, how codes get created and valued, where fee schedules come from, and where the gaps between "covered" and "paid" quietly erode practice revenue and patient trust.

 Drawing on years of first-hand experience navigating dental benefits from both the clinical and business sides, this session goes beyond the front-desk basics. New dentists will walk away finally understanding a system that clinical training never covered. Seasoned owners and multi-practice leaders will leave with sharper language for fee negotiations, a clearer read on where their practice is leaving money on the table, and concrete strategies for protecting fee integrity as insurance pressures intensify. Whether you're building your first associate contract or running a multi-site group, this is the insurance education dental school skipped: built for every stage of the career, not just the start of it.

 

ONC Issues Newsletter

Aug 31, 2026

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

USCDI+ Quality on FHIR: Where Things Stand

For those who have been following USCDI+ Quality from afar, here is a quick look at how much progress has been made this year.  What began as a published data element list has now advanced into a full technical implementation guide—along with a deployed Inferno test kit you can use today to evaluate your own systems.

Building on the USCDI and US Core Foundation

USCDI and US Core are already widely implemented across certified health IT, serving as the foundation for core standardized health data exchange in the United States.  Our approach with USCDI+ Quality has been to align to and extend this existing foundation.  ONC released the final USCDI+ Quality Version 1 in January which contains 179 data elements across 29 data classes, developed in close alignment with CMS's ongoing digital quality measure transition activities.  The list has continued to evolve with the June release of Draft Version 2.  Like USCDI itself, the USCDI+ Quality data element list is a policy artifact that catalogs which data elements matter rather than a technical implementation specification for how to exchange them.  And just as US Core is the FHIR implementation of USCDI, we've developed the US Quality Core Implementation Guide (IG) to implement USCDI+ Quality in FHIR.  The first version of US Quality Core is derived from QI-Core version 6 and aligned to US Core 6.1.0 and USCDI v3.1.0, the current floor for certified health IT.  Think of it as the same foundation as US Core but with a focused set of quality additions.  The goal is a common, data-element-first foundation for quality that measures across many different quality reporting programs can be built on, with an API that enables consistent, standardized data access across vendors.

Test and Explore it Today!

ONC has developed and released a test kit in Inferno that supports testing both US Quality Core servers and clients.  Since the US Quality Core IG is new and not yet implemented, US Core implementers are encouraged to point it at their existing US Core implementations and see how close they already are.  In our own experiments running the Quality test kit against a US Core only reference server, roughly 60% of the tests passed out of the box, and most of what was left came back as data-completeness skips rather than outright failures.  Tests that fail are key feedback at this stage, especially across vendors, so we can compare how our additions hold up across implementations.  At this point, the early test kit failures help us improve the test kit itself and surface things we may not be testing correctly yet.

Ways We've been Engaging with the Community

To foster industry involvement, ONC has brought this work to recent FHIR Connectathons.  There was a strong turnout at the July CMS Connectathon,  where we ran our US Quality Core test kit against real provider sandboxes.  Our sessions drew more than 80 participants, spanning measure developers, EHR vendors, payers, quality organizations, and federal partners.  We also had broad discussions where we received a lot of great feedback on things like how to best stay aligned with the existing certification floor, how to avoid a pile-up of overlapping IGs, and the data mapping and representation issues that real-world implementers face — like how "encounter" differs between the clinical space and the payer space.

What's Next?

We are looking forward to an open community review, as we are on track to ballot US Quality Core for the first time during this upcoming September HL7 ballot cycle.  We will also be running a US Quality Core track at the upcoming September FHIR Connectathon.  This will be a great chance to engage with the work, test your systems, and give us feedback in-person.  Over time our goal is a predictable cadence where the guide aligns with US Core publication.  In the meantime:

This Implementation Guide (IG) is not an update to health IT certification criteria or processes regulated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).  Readers should monitor final rules provided by programs such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and/or ONC for information on official updates to the health IT certification process and measure submission requirements for quality programs.  This is early, pre-ballot work, and we're sharing it openly to give people visibility as it develops.

For Certification Program upcoming deadlines and events, please visit the ONC Program Resources page.  To submit questions or comments to ONC please use our Inquiry Portal.

Latest News Around the Ninth

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"Multidisciplinary Treatment Planning"

The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP-recognized provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by Boards of Dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for 1 Mandatory CE Credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the commission for continuing education provider recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org. Dr. Rosen has no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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Web & In-Person “CPR w/Defibrillator 2609"

New York State requires all dentists to maintain CPR certification. This course offers a 2-Year Certification. The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for 4.5 NYS Mandated Training Requirements continuing education credits. The AHA Instructors have no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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Putnam County Dental Society

The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP-recognized provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by Boards of Dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for 2 Mandatory Continuing Education Credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the commission for continuing education provider recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org. Dr. Kobren has no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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Northern Westchester Dental Study Club

The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP-recognized provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by Boards of Dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for _2.5_ Mandatory Continuing Education Credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the commission for continuing education provider recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org. Dr. Shin has no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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Dutchess County Dental Society

The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP-recognized provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by Boards of Dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for _2.5_ Mandatory Continuing Education Credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the commission for continuing education provider recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org. Dr. Bonavoglia has no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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General Meeting - September 23, 2026

The Ninth District Dental Association is an ADA CERP-recognized provider approved by the New York State Dental Association. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by Boards of Dentistry. The Ninth District Dental Association designates this activity for 7 Mandatory Continuing Education Credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the commission for continuing education provider recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org. Dr. Malek has no financial relationships relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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