Original Medicare (parts A and B) does not cover routine dental care. However, some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans offer dental coverage as an additional benefit. According to the nonprofit KFF, ...

Medicare Advantage is heading into 2026 with a slimmer menu of perks and a tighter definition of what counts as medical care.

There are numerous ways people with Medicare can get dental coverage aside from their employer or former employer. Two common misconceptions about Medicare are that it doesn’t cover dental care and ...

Should you get the same Medicare coverage as your spouse? As in most things in life, the answer is it depends.

MA enrollees have similar utilization rates of dental, vision, and hearing benefits as TM beneficiaries, despite broader coverage in MA plans. Low awareness of coverage and significant out-of-pocket ...

A study on traditional Medicare beneficiaries found that more of those had coverage for supplemental services compared to those with Medicare Advantage (MA). Spending and use were similar. Many people ...

Many working-age people assume that Medicare covers just about every kind of health care that an older person may need. It doesn't. Some of the biggest gaps involve dental, vision and hearing services ...

When you're enrolling in Medicare, it's important to understand everything it does and doesn't cover — even for medical procedures that you may not anticipate happening to you. For ...

Dear Toni: I am currently on COBRA with dental benefits. I will need dental insurance when I lose my COBRA benefits after enrolling in Medicare at 65 in March. The only dental plans I am finding are ...

I am currently on COBRA with dental benefits. I will need dental insurance when I lose my COBRA benefits after enrolling in Medicare at 65 in March. The only dental plans I am finding are in Medicare ...

Medicare doesn’t provide coverage for routine dental visits, teeth cleanings, fillings, dentures, or most tooth extractions.

Two common misconceptions about Medicare are that it doesn’t cover dental care and that beneficiaries need to pay all dental expenses out of pocket. This may explain why even though most older adults ...