Health Affairs June 25, 2025
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of informing the rapidly changing policy landscape on this topic. Additional articles will be published through mid-2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call For Submissions for this series. We are grateful to The SCAN Foundation for its support of this work.
Dental benefits are an important reason for choosing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans over traditional Medicare, which does not offer dental care. Medicare Advantage (MA) dental benefits have become richer over time. For example, the percentage of MA plans offering comprehensive dental benefits rose from roughly half a decade ago to more...







