Inside Health Policy: Cardin, Neal Express Interest in Medicare Oral Health Coverage (January 14, 2019)

Oral health is critical to overall health, yet, fewer than half of older adults have access to oral health care in a given year. In 2018, Justice in Aging contributed to a white paper released by Oral Health America. In the white paper, we discussed how incorporating an oral health benefit into Medicare Part B could expand access to oral health care to older adults.

On January 4, 2019, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced legislation to add oral health to Medicare Part B. Justice in Aging Deputy Director, Jennifer Goldberg, was quoted in the article saying that stakeholder support is coalescing behind adding an oral health benefit to Medicare Part B. The article is available online only to subscribers of Inside Health Policy. This is a summary.