Dental insurance claims; modifying definition. Effective date.

The document structure and header information were updated to reflect the House floor version, including a change in the list of co-sponsors and the addition of page headers and committee report notes.

Added names of new House sponsors (Moore, Stinson, Pae, Grego, Schreiber, Hasenbeck, and Caldwell) to the list of bill authors.

Updated the House passage date from a blank placeholder to 'April 9, 2026' and added the Senate passage date of 'February 19, 2026'.

Included the standard signature blocks for the Governor and Secretary of State, indicating the bill is ready for execution.

Removed draft-specific headers and page numbers associated with the 'Engrossed' version.

New requirement for dental plans to maintain appeal procedures specifically for claims denied due to lack of medical necessity.

New mandate that medical necessity denials must be determined by a dentist holding a nonrestricted U.S. license.

New requirement for written denial communications to include the reviewing dentist's identifier, license number, state of issuance, and contact phone number.

Added co-sponsors (Gillespie, Grellner, Daniels, McIntosh, and Moore) and official passage signatures to the bill text.

Corrected a typo in the definition of 'Covered services' by changing 'reimbursable reimbursed' to 'reimbursable'.