Original Medicare only covers dental services if they’re needed due to illness or injury. But many Medicare Advantage plans include dental coverage, including Cigna Medicare Advantage plans. Routine ...

Original Medicare doesn’t cover most dental care, but Medicare Advantage plans from UHC, HealthSpring and Aetna top our list for Medicare dental coverage for seniors. Many, or all, of the products ...

Some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans include dental coverage that may extend to dental implants, though many do not cover this specific procedure. If a Medicare Advantage plan covers dental implants ...

Dentist talking to older adult patient in office as they may have untiedhealthcare medicare dental coverage According to the non-profit KFF, at least 47% of Medicare beneficiaries may not have dental ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Diane Omdahl is a Medicare expert who keeps her readers in the know. A friend texted me recently about his neighbor. “I am ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

Cigna is a private insurance company offering Medicare Advantage plans, some of which include dental coverage. While some Cigna dental plans cover only preventive care, such as oral exams, others ...

What Dental Services Does Medicare Cover? Medicare was designed to be a health insurance program and originally didn’t provide any dental coverage at all. However, in 1980, changes were made that ...

A new study reveals that restrictive features in Medicare Advantage (MA) dental plans may create barriers to dental care access for seniors, despite the plans’ intended purpose of expanding coverage.