Medicaid Reimbursement Rates

At the North Carolina Dental Society, we know access to routine oral health care is essential for overall health and well-being. However, many families in North Carolina struggle to access this critical care. As it stands, there are more Medicaid recipients than ever before, but the current system does not provide enough reimbursement to ensure enough dentists can service them.

House Bill 60 would raise Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care by 30%, bringing North Carolina more in line with our surrounding southern states. Passing HB 60 is a critical step in improving access to dental care for North Carolinians; together, we can ensure all North Carolinians have access to a routine provider.

RESOURCES

Get the tools you need to advocate for change.

Advocacy Toolkit

This comprehensive toolkit includes an issue overview, talking points and messaging guidance, answers to frequently asked questions, guidance for contacting your legislator, and templated social media content to share online.

Blocks, Bridges and Flags

Blocks, bridges, and flags are essential message control techniques that can help you stay on message and deliver your key messages clearly and effectively. A block is a technique used to stop or redirect a question. A bridge is a transitional phrase that connects the question you're asked to the message you want to deliver. A flag is a verbal cue that makes your message stand out. This document provides examples to help you identify the block, bridge, or flag that feels most natural to you.

Dental Medicaid One-Pager

This one pager provides facts and data on the state of dental care in North Carolina and makes it clear why raising Medicaid reimbursement rates is so critical. This one-pager can be shared with legislators to overview the issue and spell out why passing HB 60 is the best solution.

Video

Our Medicaid advocacy video shows how the lack of access to care impacts real North Carolinians. This video can be shared among your peers and with legislators to show why increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care matters for the people of our state.

NC needs increased rates for dental care

Video

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Gather Stories

As a part of our ongoing advocacy efforts, we are collecting patients’ stories, and we need your help. This guide can help you identify stories from patients and/or guardians of patients and provides directions of what to do once you have identified these stories. Once you have connected with a patient or guardian willing to share their story, please have them complete this consent form before introducing them to our communications partner.

Contact your legislator

Using the resources above, contact your legislators to tell them why North Carolina needs increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care so all North Carolinians can have access to critical oral health care.

Not sure who your legislators are? Use this tool to find out.

Find email addresses and phone numbers for your North Carolina House Representative here.

Find email addresses and phone numbers for your North Carolina Senator here.

If you have any questions or make contact with a legislator, let us know! Contact Public Affairs Senior Manager Elle Basile via email at ebasile@ncdental.org or by phone at (919) 378-0336 ext.136.