Implementation Review: California’s Medi-Cal Dental Program

On September 15, 2024, the Little Hoover Commission, an independent California state oversight agency, published this implementation review of California's Medi-Cal dental program. The report is a follow-up to a 2016 report about the effectiveness of the state Medicaid program's dental coverage for children. The 2016 report found that the program consistently fell short in caring for one-third of the state’s residents and half of its children. In this follow-up report, the Commission found that the state has made progress on some but not all of the recommendations issued in 2016 to improve . . .