Children's Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program

Children's Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1990
Genre: Child health services
ISBN:

This study compares the dental manuals of seven state Medicaid programs with a set of basic dental services, which comprise shared components of various well-accepted dental guidelines, to see if states allow these services to children eligible for Medicaid. It also surveys dentists in each state to see if they provide those basic services and what problems they encounter in trying to provide them.

Medicaid

Medicaid
Author: Alicia Puente Cackley
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1437924174

Children's access to Medicaid dental services is a long-standing concern. Medicaid -- a joint fed. and state program that provides health care coverage, including dental care, for 30 million low-income children -- but, many children in Medicaid experience difficulty finding a dentist who would treat them. At the fed. level, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) oversees Medicaid. This report examined: (1) state strategies to monitor and improve access to dental care for children in Medicaid; and (2) CMS actions since 2007 to improve oversight of Medicaid dental services for children. The author surveyed all state Medicaid programs and interviewed state and fed. officials, and dental researchers and associations. Charts and tables.

Questionable Billing for Medicaid Pediatric Dental Service in California

Questionable Billing for Medicaid Pediatric Dental Service in California
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514373255

Medicaid is the primary source of dental coverage for children in low-income families and provides access to dental care for approximately 37 million children. In recent years, a number of dental providers and chains have been prosecuted for providing unnecessary dental procedures to children with Medicaid and causing harm in the process. This report is part of a series that identifies dental providers with questionable billing in four States: New York, Louisiana, Indiana, and California. An additional report will look at children's access to Medicaid dental care.

CDT 2020

CDT 2020
Author: American Dental Association
Publisher: American Dental Association
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1684470552

Get paid faster and keep more detailed patient records with CDT 2020: Dental Procedure Codes. New and revised codes fill in the coding gaps, which leads to quicker reimbursements and more accurate record keeping. CDT 2020 is the most up-to-date coding resource and the only HIPAA-recognized code set for dentistry. 2020 code changes include: 37 new codes, 5 revised codes, and 6 deleted codes. The new and revised codes reinforce the connection between oral health and overall health, help with assessing a patient’s health via measurement of salivary flow, and assist with case management of patients with special healthcare needs. Codes are organized into 12 categories of service with full color charts and diagrams throughout, in spiral bound format for easy searching. Includes a chapter on ICD-10-CM codes. CDT 2020 codes go into effect on January 1, 2020 – don’t risk rejected claims by using outdated codes.

Medicaid

Medicaid
Author: James C. Cosgrove
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1437910742

In recent years, concerns have been raised about the adequacy of dental care for low-income children. Attention to this subject became more acute due to the widely publicized case of Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old boy who died as a result of an untreated infected tooth that led to a fatal brain infection. Deamonte had health coverage through Medicaid, a joint fed. and state program that provides health care coverage, incl. dental care, for millions of low-income children. He had extensive dental disease and his family was unable to find a dentist to treat him. This report examines the extent to which children in Medicaid experience dental disease, the extent to which they receive dental care, and how these conditions have changed over time.