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SCDA Member Benefits Group EgramJuly 2010
In This Issue
Planning a Trip Soon?
New SCDA Member Benefit
Just in Case You Happen to Be in the Market
HITECH Act and Health Care Reform
Planning a Trip Soon? Read the Below Recent Transports Before Packing Your Bags
BHUTAN: While on a motorcycle trip through Bhutan, a 53-year-old Medjet member sustained multiple traumatic injuries in a motorcycle accident. He was hospitalized in Thimphu, Bhutan. After initial stabilization, Medjet arranged his medical transfer from Thimphu to Delhi, India, and finally to his home hospital in St. Paul, MN for surgical intervention and rehabilitation.
Savings to Member: $151,624

SOUTH AFRICA: During a cruise to South Africa, a Medjet member was removed from the cruise ship and subsequently hospitalized in Durban, South Africa with acute renal failure and multi-system organ failure. After several weeks of life support, she was deemed stable and able to be transported. Medjet then arranged for her to be medically transferred to her home hospital in Charleston, SC for continued care and treatment.
Savings to Member: $79,500

INDIA: While on a world cruise, a Medjet member was hospitalized in Goa, India with renal failure and acute hyperglycemia. After initial stabilization, Medjet arranged for him to be medically transferred back to his home hospital in Dallas, TX.
Savings to Member: $87,900                      
    
MedjetAssist is the premier emergency medical evacuation membership program for travelers. If a member is hospitalized 150 miles or more from home - virtually anywhere in the world - MedjetAssist reviews his or her condition both with the attending medical staff and the member's own physicians and arranges medical transfer to the member's hospital of choice and now you can become a Medjet member (with a discount of more than 20% for an annual membership) simply for being an SCDA member.  Individual annual memberships (up to age 75) are $190 per year and $300 for a family.
 
Just call 1-800-527-7478 and mention that you are an SCDA Member or click here.
 
See MedjetAssist's YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQx9z3KEXU.
New SCDA Member Benefit
The SCDA Member Benefits Group recently worked out an endorsement of SolmeteX for amalgam separators.  SolmeteX offers 3 different sizes of separators for your practice depending on the number of operatories you have within your practice.  This endorsement coincides with the goals of the Amalgam Separator Task Force that the SCDA created to help educate member dentists of the importance of installing a separator.
 
As an SCDA Member you receive your second container free, which is a value of $170.
 
You can work through whichever supply company you are most comfortable with to purchase a SolmeteX separator and simply fax your invoice to SolmeteX at 1-508-393-1795 to receive your free container.
Just in Case You Happen to Be in the Market... Here's a Deal!
Staples item 832178 normally $59.99 now only $24.95 for SCDA Members!  This price is good till August 28th.  Order your touchless Towel Dispenser today and stop wasting the C-fold towels.  Enhance your image, reduce costs, improve hygiene, and save space.
 
Multi Folds would require three dispenser reloads of a total of 5.80 pks or $10.90 in towels compared to one 400' roll at $5.80; a savings of $5.10 over Multi Folds!
 
It would take OVER two cartons of multi folds at $60.00 + to equal 1 six roll pack of 400' towels at $34.80!  To view more information on this product, follow this link.
 
http://www.scda.org//associations/5602/files/Staples%20SofPull%20Ad.pdf
 
You can order online by clicking here or if you have yet to set up an online account with Staples, you can contact Dawn Brogden at (888) 224-3784, ext. 4558 or via e-mail at dawn.brogden@staples.com.
HITECH Act and Health Care Reform
Have you heard of the HITECH Act?  This is a recent law that pertains to patients' personal health information and states that practitioners who break it can face criminal and/or civil penalties for security breaches. 
 
The SCDA and SCDA Member Benefits Group is holding a seminar on Friday, September 10th in Columbia to bring Dentists and their staffs up to speed on what is required within the law and how it specifically pertains to dental practices.  A breach is any unauthorized acquisition, access, use or disclosure of unsecured protected health information which compromises the security or privacy of such information; even access that creates the potential for misuse could trigger a breach.  Administrative and organizational safeguards will be discussed in addition to physical and technical safeguards.
 
The second part of this seminar will be an update on national health care reform and how it will affect you as a small business owner in the coming months and years.  Changes such as dependent coverage, pre-existing conditions, rescissions and lifetime dollar limits are taking affect this year, but very soon employers will be required to distribute uniform benefit summaries to participants, provide 60 day advance notice of material modifications and meet many other mandates that are being handed down.
 
This seminar is restricted to the first 250 registrants and it is filling up quickly, so be sure to register soon.
 
Click here to learn more details about this seminar and to print out a registration form.

As always, contact me at 1-800-327-2598, ext. 100 with any questions or visit us at www.scda.org


Sincerely,

 
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Mark K. Brown
SCDA Member Benefits Group Manager
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