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The introduction of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 was designed to create a shift from procedure-based care to a focus on prevention, risk management, and quality outcomes. Doing so, it was theorized, would help control chronic diseases and the spiraling cost of care—particularly for older adults.1 Provision of unnecessary procedures and services, as well as insufficient emphasis on prevention are major contributors to the economic burden of health care.2 At the same time, a renewed interest in oral health, its impact on overall health, and the cost of care for chronic disease led to the incorporation of oral health goals and objectives in national initiatives (eg, the Surgeon General’s Healthy People 2020). The bottom line is that these changes have meant oral health providers and insurers must ramp up their efforts to change the way care is both provided and paid for now and in the future.
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