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Nationwide, Medicare Advantage plans' annual spending on vision, dental services, and durable medical equipment totaled $3.9 billion, while enrollees spent $9.2 billion out-of-pocket for these ...

Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare enrollees paid $205.86 and $226.12, respectively, for eyeglasses (9.0% less for Medicare Advantage); $226.82 and $249.98, respectively for dental visits ...

MA plans promote that they offer dental, vision and hearing benefits ... pocket for dental visits compared to those using Medicare Advantage, but no less for most other supplemental services ...

M edicare Advantage-;the privatized form of Medicare that offers benefits beyond traditional Medicare, such as dental insurance-;is gaining in popularity, but a new analysis reveals that the ...

In these cases, Medicare Part A covers the hospitalization but not the cost of the dental procedure. Medicare Advantage, also known as Part C, is an alternative to Original Medicare. Private ...

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 ...