Dental help work the system and get people care that they might not otherwise get so we've talked with people who have had like all their teeth polled and it's not necessarily covered but but they had to have.
them pulled because of the pain and other people where they were able to get better access to something than that so it's very inconsistent ly implemented right at the moment adds that there's federally required adult dental services or what we call the frauds and those are always covered
benefit so those are the things that you could a doctor can perform so usually those are extractions are the big one so those typically fall within that bucket and Medicaid programs that have to be
recovered and then I think there's so much state variation as such as noted that the way that other
emergency services come in but the frauds are federally mandated are federally required adult dental services that must be covered one question Kathy about the the data source that you were
using for those preventive dental and and the lower cost for chronic diseases so what was the data
source for that yeah so we have an organization called Maine health data organization and Delta
Dental actually paid over twenty thousand dollars I believe to get a emergency department usage and other code like to get what's covered and they also used our Freedom of Information Act to get
some data from the department to figure out what's actually currently
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