preventive care

Preventive Dental Care Associated with Fewer ED, Hospital Visits

by Jennifer Bresnick, Health IT Analytics

Providing dental coverage as a preventive care benefit may help providers and payers reduce the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations, according to a new two-year study from Capital BlueCross, Dominion National, and Geneia LLC. Integrating dental services more tightly into the medical care continuum helped to cut utilization by individuals with chronic conditions, researchers said. … Read more

What’s all this blather about retreading patients – oh, recare!!! sorry..

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by Debbie Seidel-Bittke Preventive Care Appointments = Lifeline Image by Getty Images via @daylife One system in the dental office, which is often overlooked, is the dental hygiene departments’ recare system. It works best when the office doesn’t need to call patients to come in for a missed or delayed dental hygiene appointment. The dental … Read more