Medicaid

Medicaid PDF

Author: Alicia Puente Cackley

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1437924174

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Children's access to Medicaid dental services is a long-standing concern. Medicaid -- a joint fed. and state program that provides health care coverage, including dental care, for 30 million low-income children -- but, many children in Medicaid experience difficulty finding a dentist who would treat them. At the fed. level, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) oversees Medicaid. This report examined: (1) state strategies to monitor and improve access to dental care for children in Medicaid; and (2) CMS actions since 2007 to improve oversight of Medicaid dental services for children. The author surveyed all state Medicaid programs and interviewed state and fed. officials, and dental researchers and associations. Charts and tables.

Children's Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program

Children's Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program PDF

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Published: 1990

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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This study compares the dental manuals of seven state Medicaid programs with a set of basic dental services, which comprise shared components of various well-accepted dental guidelines, to see if states allow these services to children eligible for Medicaid. It also surveys dentists in each state to see if they provide those basic services and what problems they encounter in trying to provide them.

Questionable Billing for Medicaid Pediatric Dental Service in California

Questionable Billing for Medicaid Pediatric Dental Service in California PDF

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781514373255

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Medicaid is the primary source of dental coverage for children in low-income families and provides access to dental care for approximately 37 million children. In recent years, a number of dental providers and chains have been prosecuted for providing unnecessary dental procedures to children with Medicaid and causing harm in the process. This report is part of a series that identifies dental providers with questionable billing in four States: New York, Louisiana, Indiana, and California. An additional report will look at children's access to Medicaid dental care.

Medicaid

Medicaid PDF

Author: James C. Cosgrove

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1437910742

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In recent years, concerns have been raised about the adequacy of dental care for low-income children. Attention to this subject became more acute due to the widely publicized case of Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old boy who died as a result of an untreated infected tooth that led to a fatal brain infection. Deamonte had health coverage through Medicaid, a joint fed. and state program that provides health care coverage, incl. dental care, for millions of low-income children. He had extensive dental disease and his family was unable to find a dentist to treat him. This report examines the extent to which children in Medicaid experience dental disease, the extent to which they receive dental care, and how these conditions have changed over time.