CDHP Fact Sheet Top Ten Questions To Ask State Leaders* about Medicaid and Coverage for Children’s Oral Health

Although dental caries remains the single most common chronic disease of US children and adolescents, many health policies fail to feature oral health care as a critical component of overall pediatric health care. The new Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) provides states with new opportunities to change the way they deliver dental care to low-income children in Medicaid. This fact sheet was developed to help you ask questions of policymakers so that you can keep abreast of possible changes in your state.