- Date:
- January 12, 2012
- Contact:
- Matt Jacob | 202.540.6310
- Project:
- Children's Dental Campaign
- Issues:
- Dental Health, Health Care Costs
- State:
- National
- Report:
- A Costly Dental Destination
This brief provides an overview of New Zealand’s use of dental therapists to provide care for children, and offers insights for U.S. policymakers about how midlevel providers can expand children’s access to dental care, prevent and treat tooth decay, and improve public health. more
States are targeting Medicaid fraud and abuse with an array of policies and tools. To help policy makers learn about steps taken in their state and across the country, the State Health Care Spending Project created an online database containing hundreds of practices found to be promising by state and federal Medicaid agencies.
While total U.S. health care spending grew slowly in 2011, rising about 4 percent, the story for state and local governments was dramatically different.
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