New Findings from New York University (NYU) in the Area of Dentistry Reported (Should Medicaid Include Adult Coverage for Preventive Dental Procedures? What Evidence Is Needed?)

2020 AUG 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on Dentistry are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting from New York City, New York, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Medicaid programs may have a salient financial incentive to provide adult coverage for cost-effective preventive dental procedures because they face responsibility for catastrophic costs of dental disease. Whether there is sufficient evidence to support adult Medicaid coverage of preventive dental services is unclear.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Minority and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from New York University (NYU), “Using an optimal insurance model, the author examines what evidence there is to support coverage of cost-effective preventive dental services in Medicaid and what evidence gaps remain. There is insufficient evidence to support adult Medicaid coverage for preventive dental procedures.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “More research is needed to identify preventive dental procedures that are cost-effective from a Medicaid perspective, quantify the impact dental prevention has on dental related health care costs and overall health care costs, and quantify the impact patient-side and provider-side financial incentives have on take-up of specific preventive dental treatments.”

For more information on this research see: Should Medicaid Include Adult Coverage for Preventive Dental Procedures? What Evidence Is Needed? The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2020;151(8):607-613. The Journal of the American Dental Association can be contacted at: Amer Dental Assoc, 211 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Shulamite S. Huang, New York University (NYU), College of Dentistry, Epidemiol & Hlth Promot, 433 First Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2020.05.005. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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