Medicaid dental directory

Find a Medicaid Dentist in New York

7,642 dental providers are state-listed on New York’s official Medicaid and CHIP dental submission. State-listed means on the roster, not a booking guarantee: call to confirm they take your plan.

New York Medicaid dental coverage stats

7,642
State-listed dental providers
3
Medicaid & CHIP dental plans
1,481
Pediatric dentists listed
69
Orthodontists listed

Source: New York’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 2026-08-03. Published rosters overstate active participation; studies phone-confirm roughly two-thirds of official listings. Always call the office to confirm.

Where New York’s Medicaid dentists are

State-listed providers by city, from the most recent New York submission.

Brooklyn
1,290 listed
Bronx
947 listed
New York
857 listed
Buffalo
544 listed
Rochester
298 listed
Flushing
222 listed
Staten Island
168 listed
Jackson Heights
144 listed
Elmhurst
124 listed
Jamaica
122 listed
Yonkers
89 listed
New Hyde Park
88 listed
Astoria
81 listed
Niagara Falls
76 listed
Syracuse
71 listed

New York Medicaid & CHIP dental plans

Dentists participate per plan, not per program. When you call, name the specific plan on your card.

CHIP Managed CareMEDICAID FEE FOR SERVICEMedicaid Managed Care

What New York Medicaid pays dentists

Reimbursement shapes participation: states that pay dentists more list more of them. New York’s published dental fee schedule (2025) covers 325 procedure codes.

See New York Medicaid dental rates

New York Medicaid dentist FAQ

How do I find a dentist that takes Medicaid in New York?

New York lists 7,642 dental providers on its official Medicaid and CHIP submission to the federal InsureKidsNow locator. Coverage is deepest in Brooklyn, Bronx, New York. 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 New York?

7,642 dental providers are state-listed for New York 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 New York Medicaid dentists accepting new patients?

New York'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 New York 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 New York Medicaid actually pays for common procedures on our New York fee-schedule page, and confirm current adult coverage with the state program.

How current is this New York Medicaid dentist list?

New York's listings carry state update dates as recent as 2026-08-03. 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.