Iowa has the highest percent of dentists participating in HHS' Children's Health Insurance Program, and New Hampshire has the lowest, according to poll results from the American Dental Association.
The ADA released results in August after surveying dentists throughout the country about their participation in CHIP. Below is a ranking of the states based on how many of their dentists participate in the program:
- Iowa: 77.6 percent
- North Dakota: 73.6 percent
- Montana: 73.1 percent
- Alabama: 72.3 percent
- Delaware: 71.8 percent
- Vermont: 70.6 percent
- Michigan: 70.4 percent
- Mississippi: 66.3 percent
- Wyoming: 65.6 percent
- Arkansas: 61 percent
- Alaska: 60.7 percent
- New Mexico: 60.6 percent
- Colorado: 59.9 percent
- West Virginia: 59 percent
- Minnesota: 58.7 percent
- South Dakota: 58.4 percent
- Nebraska: 58.1 percent
- Texas: 57.3 percent
- Indiana: 56.6 percent
- Kentucky: 50.3 percent
- Massachusetts: 48.5 percent
- Connecticut: 45.1 percent
- Pennsylvania: 44.9 percent
- Idaho: 44.5 percent
- Nevada: 43.6 percent
- Oklahoma: 43.5 percent
- Oregon: 41.2 percent
- Louisiana: 40.6 percent
- Kansas: 39.7 percent
- Utah: 39.6 percent
- Washington, D.C.: 39.4 percent
- South Carolina: 38.6 percent
- Wisconsin: 37.9 percent
- New York: 37.4 percent
- Missouri: 36.6 percent
- Rhode Island: 36.5 percent
- North Carolina: 35.1 percent
- Hawaii: 35 percent
- Washington: 33.1 percent
- New Jersey: 31.8 percent
- California: 30.5 percent
- Arizona: 30.4 percent
- Georgia: 30 percent
- Florida: 29.7 percent
- Ohio: 29.6 percent
- Illinois: 28.8 percent
- Maryland: 26.8 percent
- Tennessee: 26.8 percent
- Virginia: 26.4 percent
- Maine: 16 percent
- New Hampshire: 15.6 percent
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