Dental care is essential to health care and California’s Medicaid agency is taking steps to ensure quality access to low-income individuals and families in the state. But there are still challenges to overcome, such as dental credit card debt, as National Health Law Program Senior Attorney Michelle Lilienfeld details in this fact sheet. Lilienfeld provides an overview of dental credit cards including consumer protections, and tools for California advocates handling dental credit card debt cases.
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