The newly restarted Medicaid redetermination process could strip millions of people of their dental benefits, according to new data. The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health released a new analysis ...

Medicaid adult dental coverage is an optional benefit that states often add or remove in response to budgetary pressures. The effect of these fluctuations on access to dental services is unclear.

Federal and state Medicaid programs mandate dental coverage for children but not adults. However, rising awareness of the economic and health costs of poor dental health and federal pandemic money has ...

Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000 low-income adults enrolled in Medicaid. But when Quinn chipped a tooth and it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Medicaid is a core source of oral health care coverage for families, which is critical to ensuring overall health and well-being. ...

Medicaid was expanded to millions of individuals under the Affordable Care Act, but many states do not provide dental coverage for adults under their Medicaid programs. In the absence of dental ...