Medicaid dental directory

Find a Medicaid Dentist in Texas

17,698 dental providers are state-listed on Texas’s official Medicaid and CHIP dental submission, including 10,171 marked as accepting new patients. State-listed means on the roster, not a booking guarantee: call to confirm they take your plan.

Texas Medicaid dental coverage stats

17,698
State-listed dental providers
10,171
Marked accepting new patients
7
Medicaid & CHIP dental plans

Source: Texas’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 2026-07-16. Published rosters overstate active participation; studies phone-confirm roughly two-thirds of official listings. Always call the office to confirm.

Where Texas’s Medicaid dentists are

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

Houston
3,137 listed
San Antonio
1,890 listed
Dallas
1,844 listed
Fort Worth
1,171 listed
Austin
1,048 listed
El Paso
676 listed
Arlington
542 listed
Irving
452 listed
Katy
440 listed
Plano
382 listed
Garland
378 listed
Edinburg
376 listed
Corpus Christi
331 listed
Denton
319 listed
Cypress
316 listed

Texas Medicaid & CHIP dental plans

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

DentaQuest (CHIP)DentaQuest (Medicaid)MCNA Dental (CHIP)MCNA Dental (Medicaid)TRADITIONAL MEDICAIDUnited Healthcare Dental (CHIP)United Healthcare Dental (Medicaid)

What Texas Medicaid pays dentists

Reimbursement shapes participation: states that pay dentists more list more of them. Texas’s published dental fee schedule (2026) covers 363 procedure codes.

See Texas Medicaid dental rates

Texas Medicaid dentist FAQ

How do I find a dentist that takes Medicaid in Texas?

Texas lists 17,698 dental providers on its official Medicaid and CHIP submission to the federal InsureKidsNow locator. Coverage is deepest in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas. 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 Texas?

17,698 dental providers are state-listed for Texas 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 Texas Medicaid dentists accepting new patients?

10,171 of the 17,698 state-listed Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas Medicaid actually pays for common procedures on our Texas fee-schedule page, and confirm current adult coverage with the state program.

How current is this Texas Medicaid dentist list?

Texas's listings carry state update dates as recent as 2026-07-16. 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.