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Keeping PACE News

Keeping PACE is the AGD PACE Providers' most current source of information from Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) Headquarters. It is also a good reference tool for AGD leaders. Recipients are encouraged to check this resource on a regular basis for information that can help provide top-quality dental education and ensure compliance to published AGD PACE Guidelines. If you would like to propose a submission for an upcoming edition of Keeping PACE, please send it to the attention of PACE@agd.org.

Current Issue: Keeping PACE News September 2009 Archives 
  Dental Implant Training: What You Need to Know to Plan a Course
  Choosing Your Course Content—What You Need to Know   Assigning Teaching Method and Course Hours
  Learn to Post Your Courses to the AGD CE Calendar   Answering Membership Questions
  Standard XI: Course Records   Approval Maintenance Fee Reminder
  35,000 Dentists Want to Hear About Your Programs…   Why Does the AGD Need Me to Submit Course Rosters?

Approval Maintenance Fee Reminder

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In August 2008, the Academy of General Dentistry announced that the 2008 AGD Board of Trustees approved a new PACE approval maintenance fee.  Only nationally-approved AGD PACE providers will be required to pay this annual $200 fee. Maintenance fees will be billed approximately 90 days prior to the anniversary of the provider’s approval month.    
Only nationally-approved providers with approval start dates of Jan. 1, 2009 are responsible for this fee.  If you are not sure if your organization is nationally- or locally approved, or if you are not sure of your approval start date, you can check your information on the Find a Provider page of the AGD Web site.
 
The first invoices will be e-mailed Oct. 1, 2009.  If your current term of approval began in 2009 and does not expire in 2009 or 2010 you will be receiving an invoice for $200 in 2010. (Providers who expire in 2010 will receive an application to renewal approval). Please check the schedule below to find out when your fee will be due:

 

 
Current approval start date
 
Invoice

e-mail date

Approval maintenance fee due

1/1/09 - 1/31/09

10/1/2009

12/31/2009

2/1/09 - 2/28/09

11/1/2009

1/31/2010

3/1/09 - 3/31/09

12/1/2009

2/28/2010

4/1/09 - 4/30/09

1/1/2010

3/31/2010

5/1/09 - 5/31/09

2/1/2010

4/30/2010

6/1/09 - 6/30/09

3/1/2010

5/31/2010

7/1/09 - 7/31/09

4/1/2010

6/30/2010

8/1/09 - 8/31/09

5/1/2010

7/31/2010

9/1/09 - 9/30/09

6/1/2010

8/31/2010

10/1/09 - 10/31/09

7/1/2010

9/30/2010

11/1/09 - 11/30/09

8/1/2010

10/31/2010

12/1/09 - 12/31/09

9/1/2010

11/30/2010

 

Non-payment of all required fees within the established deadline(s) will be viewed as a decision by the approved provider to voluntarily withdraw from the PACE program. Any provider wishing to reinstate its recognition after discontinuation for non-payment of fees will be required to submit a new AGD PACE Application and follow the established procedures for recognition.  If you have any questions regarding this change in policy, please contact our PACE staff at PACE@agd.org or 888.243.3368, ext. 4335 or ext. 4114.

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