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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: okarol on June 28, 2010, 09:55:01 PM
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Medicare Dental Coverage: Does it Exist?
Medicare covers many things for the people it is intended to help and this helps our country to run a bit smoother. Though Medicare does do a good job on the whole of keeping people well and happy it does drop the ball in one area, dental coverage. Medicare will only cover you in very rare instances when a procedure is necessary, not routine.
Here is the few exceptions to the rule:
1) A non-covered dental service MAY be covered if it is the result of a covered dental service, a necessary part of the same covered dental service, and performed by the same Medicare approved dentist. This covers the bases as you would have to have a procedure already.
2) Extraction of teeth to prepare the jaw for radiation treatment secondary to cancer. Medicare does think about some long-term effects and tries to plan for them.
3) Dental examination prior to kidney transplantation as this is a completely necessary procedure.
If you feel like you have a situation in which Medicare should pay for your dental work you should contact Medicare offices first to see if any other exceptions exist.
Entry Filed under: Enrollment Questions
found here: http://medicare-benefits.com/medicare-dental-coverage-does-it-exist.htm
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At the time I did not know they covered a dentist visit for pre transplant.
They did however pay for removal of 4 teeth due to them causing infection and possibly effecting my transplant health. This time the doctors office knew about Medicare, but not the dental offices at my transplant center. :banghead;
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I didn't know that either.
Question is if an employee on dialysis loses coverage do to being let go will medicare cover dental stuff?