{"id":6528,"date":"2022-10-19T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:50:51","slug":"cms-medicare-dental-coverage-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/cms-medicare-dental-coverage-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Mulls Medicare Dental Coverage Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CMS is considering adding more qualifying conditions for Medicare-covered dental treatment,&nbsp;Kaiser Health News&nbsp;reported&nbsp;Oct. 17.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under current rules, <a href=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/humana-playing-catch-up-in-medicare-advantage-growth-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicare<\/a> only covers dental treatments that are necessary to treat another medical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235-400x209.jpg 400w, https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/42-e1666169500235-150x79.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, CMS officials proposed adding more conditions that qualify for dental treatment and asked for public comment on the proposed rule change. Additional conditions could include covering dental exams before organ transplants in addition to kidney transplants and before cardiac valve replacement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule changes could be announced in November and implemented as soon as January 2023,&nbsp;Kaiser Health News&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSource: <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cms-mulls-medicare-dental-coverage-expansion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beckers Payer<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS is considering adding more qualifying conditions for Medicare-covered dental treatment,&nbsp;Kaiser Health News&nbsp;reported&nbsp;Oct. 17.&nbsp; Under current rules, Medicare only covers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/cms-medicare-dental-coverage-expansion\/\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Continue Reading <i class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,29,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-6528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-distilinfo-originals","8":"tag-cms","9":"tag-medicare","10":"tag-payer-provider","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}