News Nation/World After Congress fails to add dental coverage, Medicare weighs limited benefit expansion Oct. 18, 2022 Updated Tue., Oct. 18, 2022 at 12:14 p.m.

Dental therapists have been working in the U.S. for almost 20 years. They were first employed in Alaska Native tribal clinics as a cost-effective means of adding capacity to an overstretched ...

"Congress recognized the opportunity to expand access to dental care through dental therapists more than 10 years ago," CareQuest President and CEO Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan said in a statement.

Leading dental care, patients, and seniors' advocacy organizations along with congressional Democrats largely support the proposal. But at the same time, they criticized its shortcomings.

As details come out for Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending plan, there's a twist for its expansion of Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing benefits.

As Congress debates how to rein in federal spending, some experts say aspects of Medicare Advantage should be on the chopping ...

William Stork of Cedar Hill, Missouri, is delaying a surgical tooth extraction in the hope that Congress will add a dental benefit to Medicare as part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better ...

Ideas on the Table Any new benefits probably would be phased in. The current proposal calls for vision coverage to begin in 2022, hearing in 2023 and dental benefits in 2028.

WONG: On the federal level, in 2022, an advisory committee issued a report on dental therapy and recommended that Congress make $6 million in annual funding available for dental therapy training ...

Quick Take Democrats tried but failed to expand Medicare coverage to include dental benefits in the Build Back Better bill. Yet a Facebook post tells seniors they have until Jan. 31 to apply for ...

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS Mass. could be the birthplace of a dental revolution. Here’s why. After voters overwhelmingly approved Question 2, which requires dental insurers to spend more on patient ...