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Boston-based DentaQuest, the largest provider of Medicaid dental services, wants to buy 80 percent of Oregon dental company Advantage Dental, and expand its dental care organization model to Medicaid programs across the country.

Reproductive healthcare advocates wanted the state to require insurers to sell to uninsured pregnant women throughout the year rather than limiting them to a three-month general open enrollment window or at the time of the child’s birth, but the stodgy federal healthcare.gov website is not equipped to accommodate an Oregon-specific coverage option. Health insurers had warned against cutting such “lawbreakers” any slack.

If a ruling by Insurance Commissioner Laura Cali stands, insurance companies would have to pay for hearing aids for adults, a benefit currently limited to those on the Oregon Health Plan. Insurers are required to cover the devices for children, and the feds insist they cannot discriminate by age.