{"id":12881,"date":"2019-03-20T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:37:07","slug":"medicare-no-routine-dental-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12881","title":{"rendered":"Medicare &#8211; no routine dental coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare covers approximately 60 million Americans and about 65 percent or 37 million people, do not have dental coverage. Medicare will cover emergency dental care in some cases, but not routine dental care which can have significant health consequences.\u00a0 Limited or no dental insurance coverage can result in relatively high out-of-pocket costs and for some foregoing oral health care all together. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2019\/03\/19\/not-a-lot-to-smile-about-study-explores-lack-of-dental-coverage-under-medicare\/?kw=Not%20a%20lot%20to%20smile%20about:%20Study%20explores%20%28lack%20of%29%20dental%20coverage%20under%20Medicare&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=enl&amp;utm_campaign=bprodaily&amp;utm_content=20190320&amp;utm_term=bpro\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare covers approximately 60 million Americans and about 65 percent or 37 million people, do not have dental coverage. Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12882,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}