ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2026
Access To Dental Care Among People Newly Eligible For A Medicare Dental Benefit.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early association of expanded Medicare dental benefits to dentist billing in Medicare.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2026Article
- Oral Health Care in the United States.Dentistry journal · 2026Review
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Abstract
Our analysis of 2017-22 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data found that approximately 1.31 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries annually were eligible for a dental benefit established in 2023. Eligible beneficiaries were just as likely to have dental insurance as fee-for-service beneficiaries who were ineligible for the benefit.
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