Do Oral Health Services in Medical Offices Replace Pediatric Dental Visits?

ABSTRACT: In the United States, state Medicaid programs pay for medical and dental care for children from low-income families and support nondental primary care providers delivering preventive oral health services (POHS) to young children in medical offices ("medical POHS"). Despite the potential of these policies to expand access to care, there is concern that they may replace dental visits with medical POHS. Using Medicaid claims from 38 states from 2006 to 2014, we conducted a repeated cross-sectional study and used linear probability regression to estimate the association between the annual proportion of children in a county receiving medical POHS and the probability that a child received 1) dental POHS and 2) a dental visit in a given year. Models included county and year fixed effects and cont

SUBMITTER: Kranz AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7346745 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature