Emergency and urgent dental visits among Medicaid enrollees from 2013 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Better understanding of the frequency of dental emergencies and the procedures performed during those emergency visits can help providers, insurers, and policymakers understand workforce and care provision needs.

Methods

Procedures performed at an emergency dental encounter and in the encounter following that encounter are assessed. Emergency dental encounters are those with a CDT code of D0140, D0160, or D0170. Data was analyzed from the IBM Watson Medicaid Marketscan data from 2013 to 2017, a nationally representative dental and medical claims database from 13 deidentified states in the United States.

Result

Consistently over time, about 10% of all dental encounters are due to a dental emergency. 28% of emergency dental encounters had no other procedure p

SUBMITTER: Fiehn R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7716286 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature