Find a Medicaid Dentist in Kentucky
811 dental providers are state-listed on Kentucky’s official Medicaid and CHIP dental submission. State-listed means on the roster, not a booking guarantee: call to confirm they take your plan.
Kentucky Medicaid dental coverage stats
Source: Kentucky’s submission to the federal InsureKidsNow dentist locator, which every state Medicaid program is required to keep current (CMS-10291), including managed-care networks. Listings carry state update dates as recent as 2026-07-24. Published rosters overstate active participation; studies phone-confirm roughly two-thirds of official listings. Always call the office to confirm.
Where Kentucky’s Medicaid dentists are
State-listed providers by city, from the most recent Kentucky submission.
Kentucky Medicaid & CHIP dental plans
Dentists participate per plan, not per program. When you call, name the specific plan on your card.
What Kentucky Medicaid pays dentists
Reimbursement shapes participation: states that pay dentists more list more of them. Kentucky’s published dental fee schedule (2025) covers 247 procedure codes.
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How do I find a dentist that takes Medicaid in Kentucky?
Kentucky lists 811 dental providers on its official Medicaid and CHIP submission to the federal InsureKidsNow locator. Coverage is deepest in Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green. Being state-listed means the provider appears on the program's roster, not a guarantee they are taking new patients today. Call to confirm they accept your specific plan.
How many dentists accept Medicaid in Kentucky?
811 dental providers are state-listed for Kentucky Medicaid and CHIP. Published rosters overstate active participation (studies phone-confirm roughly two-thirds of official listings), so treat the number as a ceiling, not a count of dentists ready to book you in.
Are these Kentucky Medicaid dentists accepting new patients?
Kentucky's Medicaid submission does not reliably publish an accepting-new-patients flag, so this page does not show one. Call the office to ask whether they are taking new Medicaid patients.
Does Kentucky Medicaid cover dental for adults?
Pediatric dental is federally mandated under EPSDT in every state; adult dental is an optional benefit each state funds independently. See what Kentucky Medicaid actually pays for common procedures on our Kentucky fee-schedule page, and confirm current adult coverage with the state program.
How current is this Kentucky Medicaid dentist list?
Kentucky's listings carry state update dates as recent as 2026-07-24. States are federally required to keep their InsureKidsNow submissions current, and ProviderSignal re-syncs the full national corpus quarterly. Listings still drift between updates, which is why every count on this page says call to confirm.