Datasets / Dental Care - Medicaid and Chip


Dental Care - Medicaid and Chip

Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Issued over 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Dental health is an important part of peoples overall health. States are required to provide dental benefits to children covered by Medicaid and the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP), but states choose whether to provide dental benefits for adults. See the 2010 Medicaid-CHIP Oral Health Services fact sheet for information on childrens access to dental services and opportunities and challenges to obtaining care.