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Filling an Urgent Need:

Improving Children’s Access to

Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP

JULY 2008

Filling an Urgent Need:

Improving Children’s Access to

Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP

Report prepared by:

Shelly Gehshan and Andrew Snyder

National Academy for State Health Policy

and

Julia Paradise

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

July 2008

Acknowledgments

This report rests on the contributions of the 15 state policy officials and national experts who

made time for a day-long meeting and lent their collective expertise and experience to this effort.

Without the participation of these leaders, the report would not have been possible. We thank

them for their commitment; their work to improve access to dental care for children in Medicaid

and SCHIP paves the way for others exploring how to move forward.

In addition, we would like to thank Liz Osius and Chris Cantrell, on the staff of the National

Academy for State Health Policy, for providing research assistance.