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Benefit Summary

Select A Plan That Meets Your Needs

Individual Rates $39.57/month
Family Rates $145.72/month
Annual Maximum $1,000 per person, per calendar year
Orthodontics* $1,200 Lifetime Maximum
Annual Deductible $50 per individual / $150 per family

Note: These rates are effective January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
*Orthodontic services are only available to dependent children under the age of 19. Your child's orthodontic lifetime maximum balance will be carried over from your previous plan.

Preventive/Diagnostic Services
Plan pays 100%; Member Coinsurance 0%

  • Two oral exams per calendar year
  • Two cleanings per calendar year
  • Fluoride treatment for children under age 19; twice per calendar year
  • One bitewing series per calendar year
  • Single x-rays as required
  • Sealants for children under age 16, once per permanent molar in a 36 month period
  • Space maintainers for lost deciduous (baby) teeth, replacement limited to once every 60 months

Basic/Minor Restorative Services
Plan pays 80%; Member Coinsurance 20% – Deductible Applies

  • Procedures necessary to relieve acute pain, twice per calendar year
  • Fillings: amalgam (silver) fillings; composite (white) fillings on front teeth (for composite fillings on back teeth, the plan pays what would have been paid for an amalgam filling)
  • Extractions and other routine oral surgery when not covered by a patient's medical plan
  • General anesthesia or intravenous (I.V.) sedation for complex surgical procedures
  • Root canal therapy
  • Repairs to existing partial or complete dentures once every 12 months
  • Recementing crowns or bridges
  • Rebasing or relining of partial or complete dentures; once every 60 months
  • Periodontal maintenance following active therapy –- two per year
  • Root planing and scaling once per quadrant every 24 months
  • Osseous (bone) surgery once per quadrant every 24 months (bone grafts excluded)
  • Gingivectomies and gingival curettage; once every 24 months
  • Soft tissue grafts; once per site every 60 months
  • Crown lengthening; once per site every 60 months

Major Restorative Services
Plan pays 50%; Member Coinsurance 50% – Deductible Applies

  • Crowns over natural teeth, build ups, posts and cores; replacement limited to once every 60 months
  • Bridges, build ups, posts and cores; replacement limited to once every 60 months
  • Partial and complete dentures; replacement limited to once every 60 months

Orthodontics
Plan pays 50%; Member Coinsurance 50%

  • Braces and related services for dependent children under the age of 19

Please note: Dependent children who are full-time students over age 19 are covered as long as they stay in school or up until the end of the month that they turn age 23.

To review exclusions & limitations click here.

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