1. Measuring What Matters A New Tool to Help Assess Geographic Access to Medicaid Dentists in Every State
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2. The ADA Health Policy Institute

3. The ADA Health Policy Institute

4. Dental Benefits Coverage

5. National Dental Expenditure

6. Dental Care Use in Medicaid or CHIP

7. Supply of Dentists

8. Supply of Medicaid or CHIP Dentists
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9. Supply of Medicaid or CHIP Dentists

10. Dental Care Use in Medicaid or CHIP

11. Supply and Dental Care Use

12. Measuring What Matters
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13. Methods PROVIDERS POPULATION Medicaid or CHIP participating dentists
Includes FQHCs and dental school clinics
Map every location participating in Medicaid or CHIP
Based on Insure Kids Now and ADA office data base
POPULATION
% children with public health insurance
Census tract level
5, 15, 30 minute travel times based on road networks
2SFCA method to measure density of providers per population

14. Geographic Access

15. Geographic Access

16. Geographic Access

17. Geographic Access

18. Geographic Access

19. Geographic Access
80%
of Medicaid- or CHIP-enrolled children live within a 15 minute travel time to a Medicaid or CHIP participating dentist
25%
of Medicaid- or CHIP-enrolled children live in areas with at least one Medicaid or CHIP participating dentist within a 15 minute travel time for every 500 children
40%
of Medicaid- or CHIP-enrolled children visited a dentist in the past year

20. Geographic Access

21. Geographic Access
25%
of Medicaid- or CHIP-enrolled children live in areas with at least one participating provider within a 15 minute travel time for every 500 children

22. 33% 89% 25% 95% 43% Geographic Access
of Medicaid- or CHIP-enrolled children live in areas with at least one participating provider within a 15 minute travel time for every 500 children
95%
43%
33%

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