Millions of Americans lack access to routine dental care and resort to visiting hospital emergency departments (EDs) for non-traumatic dental conditions (NTDCs). What drives these costly ED visits and who is most likely to make them? A new visual report from CareQuest Institute explores those questions within the state of Colorado.
This will be the first of our monthly Action Calls. In this call we will:
We all want to better understand if our programs, policies, and systems are achieving their intended results. That’s why evaluation is such an important piece of any organization’s work. But what does that evaluation look like in the service of health equity? How is it different and why is that important as we strive to create a more accessible, equitable, and integrated oral health system?
October 28, 2022
They run health care companies, universities and colleges, financial institutions, nonprofits, construction heavyweights, and more — they’re the women power players of the Bay State.
October 28, 2022
Without dental coverage, older adults are less likely to visit the dentist. According to a recent national survey conducted by CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, 16% of adults who reported they were without dental insurance had not seen a dentist in more than 5 years. This is more than 10% higher than the number of respondents with dental insurance who had not seen a dentist. Further, 40% of adults lacking dental insurance who had not seen a dentist in the past 2 years identified cost as the reason.
October 26, 2022
Any journey, especially one as winding, complex, and meaningful as the journey toward value-based oral health care (VBOHC), starts the same way — with a step.
Claims data can be used to estimate burden of dental disease for a population who receives dental care, according to researchers from CareQuest Institute and Marquette University School of Dentistry in an article in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
Typically, oral disease burden is estimated through epidemiological surveys, which can be costly and time-consuming. In this study, researchers compared Medicaid and commercial claims data with survey data to estimate burden of oral disease.
October 20, 2022
When Raydiance Swanston heard about the Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) program launching in North Carolina, she knew it was something Mecklenburg County Pediatric Clinic had to join.