Find a Medicaid Dentist in Mississippi
1,780 dental providers are state-listed on Mississippi’s official Medicaid and CHIP dental submission, including 867 marked as accepting new patients. State-listed means on the roster, not a booking guarantee: call to confirm they take your plan.
Mississippi Medicaid dental coverage stats
Source: Mississippi’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 2026-07-30. Published rosters overstate active participation; studies phone-confirm roughly two-thirds of official listings. Always call the office to confirm.
Where Mississippi’s Medicaid dentists are
State-listed providers by city, from the most recent Mississippi submission.
Mississippi Medicaid & CHIP dental plans
Dentists participate per plan, not per program. When you call, name the specific plan on your card.
What Mississippi Medicaid pays dentists
Reimbursement shapes participation: states that pay dentists more list more of them. Mississippi’s published dental fee schedule (2025) covers 188 procedure codes.
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How do I find a dentist that takes Medicaid in Mississippi?
Mississippi lists 1,780 dental providers on its official Medicaid and CHIP submission to the federal InsureKidsNow locator. Coverage is deepest in Jackson, Hattiesburg, Gulfport. 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 Mississippi?
1,780 dental providers are state-listed for Mississippi 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 Mississippi Medicaid dentists accepting new patients?
867 of the 1,780 state-listed Mississippi providers are marked as accepting new Medicaid patients in the state's most recent submission. That flag runs ahead of reality: panels close and staff change, so always call the office to confirm before booking.
Does Mississippi 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 Mississippi Medicaid actually pays for common procedures on our Mississippi fee-schedule page, and confirm current adult coverage with the state program.
How current is this Mississippi Medicaid dentist list?
Mississippi's listings carry state update dates as recent as 2026-07-30. 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.