Dental, Hearing, and Vision Costs and Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

(By Meredith Freed, Juliette Cubanski, Nolan Sroczynski, Nancy Ochieng, and Tricia Neuman for Kaiser Family Foundation published September 21, 2021)

Notably missing among covered benefits for older adults and people with long-term disabilities who have Medicare coverage are dental, hearing, and vision services, except under limited circumstances. Results from a recent KFF poll indicate that 90% of the public says expanding Medicare to include dental, hearing, vision is a “top” or “important” priority for Congress. Policymakers are proposing to add coverage for these services as part of budget reconciliation legislation, and a provision to add these benefits to traditional Medicare was included in the version of H.R. 3 that passed the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress.  Continue reading the issue brief here…

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