Santa Monica, CA – The Children’s Partnership released today the findings of a new study that illustrates the difficulty parents of children enrolled in Medi-Cal often experience in accessing dental care for their children. The study—summarized in the Issue Brief, Finding Dental Care in California: A Snapshot of Using the State’s Website to Find a Medi-Cal Dentist for Children —mimicked the online process that parents can use to try to find a dentist who treats Medi-Cal patients and found the experience often exasperating.
“The results of this study clearly show that some children who transition from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal face difficulties getting the dental care they were promised,” said Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President of The Children’s Partnership. “Meanwhile, children currently enrolled in Medi-Cal continue to suffer from a lack of access to dental care.”
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