Abstract
This chapter discusses dental insurance, its coverage and its relationship to overall health status of the population in the United States (US). Limited coverage can have impacts beyond oral health. An emphasis has been placed on how the management of chronic and oral conditions can lead to improvements in cost management. Private insurers have taken note of this. Further, the chapter includes examples of tangible financial gains of integrated management of care in health settings. Potential pathways including health economics perspective to improve both oral and systemic health have been discussed. Subsequently the authors delve directly into the economics of integration.
Joseph Kilsdonk and Kelly Bogg were formely with Marshfield Clinic.
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Ide and colleagues (2007) found that people with severe periodontitis incurred 21% higher health care costs than those who were free of periodontal disease. Additional studies of this nature would be important to support a measured approach to expanding dental coverage.
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It is also possible that dental care for persons with greater incidence of chronic illness as is the case with Medicare beneficiaries may require even higher levels of spending per beneficiary. Again, it would be good to know, scientifically, if this is the case.
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Foreman, S., Kilsdonk, J., Boggs, K. (2019). Economics of Clinical Data Integration. In: Acharya, A., Powell, V., Torres-Urquidy, M., Posteraro, R., Thyvalikakath, T. (eds) Integration of Medical and Dental Care and Patient Data. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98298-4_15
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