Children’s Access to Dental Care Affected by Reimbursement Rates, Dentist Density, and Dentist Participation in Medicaid
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Effect of Medicaid reimbursement rates on children's access to dental care.
M edicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act) was designed to provide medical and dental care for children in low socioeconomic groups. Access to dental care for children covered by Medicaid, however, has not been entirely successful due to lack of participation by dental providers. 1, 2 Low reimbursement rates have been reported by providers to be a major factor in Medicaid nonparticipation...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2017.303962