Fierce Health Payers July 28, 2021
Nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries currently do not have dental coverage as of 2019 as Congress considers adding the benefit to the program, a new analysis finds.
The analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation released Wednesday found that beneficiaries on average spent $847 in 2018 on out-of-pocket dental services. Senate Democrats have proposed adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare as part of a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package.
Kaiser’s analysis looked at 2019 Medicare and Medicare Advantage data to determine how many people could be helped by the addition of dental benefits.
It found that 23.6 million beneficiaries, 47% of all enrollees, didn’t have dental coverage in 2019. That same year, 26% of beneficiaries got coverage from an MA...
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