Some dental health providers are apprehensive about the unknowns of a new Medicaid program. (Getty Images) It took oral health advocates nearly 25 years to persuade lawmakers to provide adults on ...

When Jessica Brock started looking for a new dentist for her teenage son, she made phone call after phone call to find someone in the Richmond area who would take Medicaid. The Hagerstown resident ...

A state may have a significant share of dentists enrolled in Medicaid, but that doesn't mean they are treating these low-income patients, according to a research brief presented on October 4 by the ...

Even as Medicaid expansion has provided more low-income adults and their children access to oral health care, many dentists are not accepting them as patients.

An estimated 1 in 3 dentists in the U.S. treat Medicaid patients, and those who see low-income patients are less likely to be white, according to a panel discussion held on September 15 by the ADA ...

According to a report in November 2021 from the Department of Medical Assistance Services, only about 30% of all dentists in the state are enrolled in Medicaid.

Children and adolescents from states that had higher Medicaid payment levels to dentists between 2000 and 2008 were more likely to receive dental care, although children covered by Medicaid ...

It took oral health advocates nearly 25 years to persuade lawmakers to provide adults on Medicaid coverage for basic dental care. Gail Brown, one of those advocates, said she saw that investment ...