Dental Care and Medicaid, Dentists Do Not Give Preference to Children on Medicaid
Insights has revealed that dentists avoid giving appointments to children in the combined Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program. Joanna Bisgaier, MSW, from the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and team intended to check out the influence of insurance status on dentists’ keenness to allot an appointment for children. Their research revealed that only 36.5% of Medicaid/CHIP beneficiaries were given an appointment