The New Medicare Dental Benefit-Small but Mighty

Lisa Simon; Zirui Song; Michael L Barnett

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4802

The New Medicare Dental Benefit-Small but Mighty

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Dec 1;184(12):1407-1408. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4802.

Authors

Lisa Simon¹, Zirui Song^{2

3}, Michael L Barnett⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 39432271
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4802

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint details the previous lack of dental coverage under Medicare and what the new expansion could provide for patients now and in the future.