Best Medicare Advantage plan for dental coverage in Lane County, Kansas

No plan open to everyone in Lane County gives a yearly dollar allowance for comprehensive dental care this year.

Every Medicare plan sold in Lane County

Before you choose

• Check your doctors and hospitals. Most Medicare Advantage plans pay only, or mostly, for care in their own network. Ask the plan, or your doctor's office, before you join.
• Price your prescriptions. What your drugs cost can differ by hundreds of dollars a year between plans and outweigh any premium difference. Add them in our plan list to see your own costs.
• Read the plan's own documents. We take every figure from what the plan filed with Medicare, but its Evidence of Coverage is the final word on what it pays.
• Get free advice if you want it. Your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) gives free, unbiased help choosing a plan.

How we picked

The plan with the most money a year towards comprehensive dental care -- fillings, crowns, root canals, dentures -- as the plan filed it with Medicare. Money only dental care can use counts ahead of an allowance shared with other benefits. Plans that charge a set copay for each service instead of paying from an allowance (dental HMOs) aren't ranked by dollars; they're listed separately, by their highest copays for fillings and crowns, root canals and dentures. Where several tie, we look next at the largest Part B giveback, then the lowest premium, then the lowest out-of-pocket limit for in-network care. Plans that still tie are listed by name.

We compare the 1 Medicare Advantage plan with drug coverage that anyone with Medicare in Lane County can join. Special needs plans and PACE, which are only for people who qualify, aren't included; you'll find them on the Lane County page. No plan pays to be picked.

We don't pick plans Medicare rates below 3 stars, and leave 1 out here: UHC MedicareDirect PF-0001 (PFFS) (2.5 stars). Plans too new to have a rating are included, and say so.