This is very similar to my earlier comments on Washington State.
For a while Medicaid was paying (at least in WA) for every pediatric dental procedure to be done in-hospital, under anesthesia, but I guess that is no longer the case.
I didn’t realize how bad it was until last fall when we had a campaign headquarters right next door to a dentist’s office. My grandson is going to need braces so I went over and asked how much they would cost. One of the clerks - they had two other clerks and two hygenists - asked if he would be using some kind of Texas Medicaid insurance. When I responded no, she said they only accept Medicaid.
We counted the number of kids going in there in just one day’s time and there were 44 of them. Just blew me away.