CDHP State Summary: Indiana Dental Medicaid

In the late 1990s, at about the same time that Indiana was expanding Medicaid eligibility for families and aggressively using outreach to enroll children in Hoosier Healthwise (Indiana’s SCHIP), many dentists were disenrolling from Medicaid participation. By 1997, only 751 dentists were still participating, compared to 1,500 in 1993, just prior to major reductions in provider reimbursement that occurred in January 1994.