Idaho restores adult dental Medicaid coverage

DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Mar 11, 2014

Idaho has restored nonemergency adult dental services under Medicaid.

Gov. Butch Otter signed the bill, HB 395, to restore the benefits on Tuesday. As reported in February, when the coverage was eliminated in 2011, monthly emergency room costs in that state more than doubled to $65,000.

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