{"id":19043,"date":"2021-10-29T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19043"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:29:04","slug":"getting-dental-coverage-added-to-medicare-faces-pushback-from-some-dentists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19043","title":{"rendered":"Getting dental coverage added to Medicare faces pushback from some dentists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Bram Sable-Smith for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>William Stork needs a tooth out. That&#8217;s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver&#8217;s dentist told him during a recent checkup.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of extraction requires an oral surgeon, which could cost him around $1,000 because, like most seniors, Stork does not have dental insurance, and Medicare won&#8217;t cover his dental bills. Between Social Security and his pension from the Teamsters union, Stork says, he is able to live comfortably in Cedar Hill, Mo., about 30 miles southwest of St. Louis. But that cost is significant enough that he&#8217;s decided to wait until the tooth absolutely must come out.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/10\/29\/1050263559\/biden-medicare-dental-coverage-congress\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Bram Sable-Smith for NPR) William Stork needs a tooth out. That&#8217;s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver&#8217;s dentist told him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dentaloral-health","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043","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=19043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19044,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions\/19044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}