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Association between Medicaid expansion, dental coverage policies for adults, and children's receipt of preventive dental services.
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- The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Dental Care: An Integrative Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Medicaid Dental Coverage and Preventive Dental Care Use Among Pregnant Adults.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
- Dental Care Use Among Children and Adolescents in Medicaid: Associations With State-Level Medicaid Policy Factors and Provider Availability.Journal of public health dentistry · 2025Article
- Variability in the utilization of preventive dental services among the underserved population of Indiana.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review to Identify Community- and Societal-Level Strategies Evaluated from 2013 to 2023 for Their Potential Impact on Child Well-Being in the United States.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Health Care Access and Use Among Children & Adolescents Exposed to Parental Incarceration-United States, 2019.Academic pediatrics · 2023Article
- The impact of dental care programs on healthcare system and societal outcomes: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Effects of the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act on immigrant children's healthcare access.Health services research · 2022Article
- The Association Between Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage And Children's Oral Health.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2021Article
- Association between Medicaid expansion, dental coverage policies for adults, and children's receipt of preventive dental services.Health services research · 2020Article
- Multilevel Determinants of Adolescent Dental Care Access: A Scoping Review Using a Health Disparities Framework.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether low-income children's use of preventive dental services is linked to variation in state Medicaid policies that affect parents' access to dental care in Medicaid. DATA SOURCES: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2011-2016), Area Health Resources File, and Medicaid adult dental coverage policies. STUDY
designWe conducted a quasi-experimental analysis using linked parent-child dyads in low-income families (≤125 percent of the Federal Poverty Level). We assessed whether expansions of Medicaid to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act were associated with increases in the use of preventive dental services among low-income children when state Medicaid programs did vs did not cover these services for adults. PRINCIPAL
findingsOver the study period, 37.8 percent of low-income children received at least one annual preventive dental visit. We found no change in children's receipt of preventive dental care associated with Medicaid expansions in states that covered (1.26 percentage points; 95% CI: -3.74 to 6.27) vs did not cover preventive dental services for adults (3.03 percentage points; 95% CI: -2.76 to 8.81). (differential change: -1.76 percentage points; 95% CI: -8.09, 4.56). However, our estimates are imprecise, with wide confidential intervals that are unable to rule out sizable effects in either direction.
conclusionWe did not find an association between Medicaid expansions with concurrent coverage of preventive dental services for adults and children's use of these services. Factors other than parental access to dental benefits through Medicaid may be more salient determinants of preventive dental care use among low-income children.
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