ArticleJournal of the American Dental Association (1939)2020
Should Medicaid include adult coverage for preventive dental procedures? What evidence is needed?
Article in Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Attitudes About Administrative Burdens for Beneficiaries and Dental Care Providers in Medicaid.Journal of public health dentistry · 2026Article
- Pandemic-Associated Dental Office Closures Associated With Increased Use of Emergency Departments for Dental Conditions in Publicly Insured Children In New York State.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- The relationship between preventive dental care and overall medical expenditures.The American journal of managed care · 2024Article
- Does preventive dental care reduce nonpreventive dental visits and expenditures among Medicaid-enrolled adults?Health services research · 2022Article
- Burden of Oral Diseases and Access to Oral Care in an Ageing Society.International dental journal · 2022Review
- Transformation of dental services from a governmental model to a revenue-generation model of operation in a tertiary care hospital: a health economics assessment.Annals of Saudi medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundMedicaid programs may have a salient financial incentive to provide adult coverage for cost-effective preventive dental procedures because they face responsibility for catastrophic costs of dental disease. Whether there is sufficient evidence to support adult Medicaid coverage of preventive dental services is unclear.
methodsUsing an optimal insurance model, the author examines what evidence there is to support coverage of cost-effective preventive dental services in Medicaid and what evidence gaps remain.
resultsThere is insufficient evidence to support adult Medicaid coverage for preventive dental procedures.
conclusionsMore research is needed to identify preventive dental procedures that are cost-effective from a Medicaid perspective, quantify the impact dental prevention has on dental-related health care costs and overall health care costs, and quantify the impact patient-side and provider-side financial incentives have on take-up of specific preventive dental treatments. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: Although Medicaid programs may have an interest in preventing catastrophic costs of dental disease (that is, dental-related emergency department visits), there is insufficient evidence for Medicaid programs to provide coverage for preventive dental procedures.
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