One Year Later: Medicaid’s Response to Systemic Problems Revealed by the Death of Deamonte Driver

The Domestic Policy Subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine the actions that the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (“CMS”) has taken to reform the pediatric dental program for Medicaid eligible children since the death of Deamonte Driver, a twelve-year old boy from Maryland. Deamonte died as a result of brain infection caused by untreated tooth decay in February 2007.

Witnesses for the hearing include:

Panel I
Mr. Dennis Smith, Director, Center for Medicaid and State Operations

Dr. Jim Crall, Director, Oral Health Policy Center, Professor and Chair, Section of Pediatric Dentistry
UCLA School of Dentistry

Dr. Burton Edelstein, Founding Chair, Children’s Dental Health Project, Professor and Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Room 2154 Rayburn
2 p.m.