EMPLOYEE DENTAL PLANS

UC provides a choice of dental plans for you and your eligible family members. Coverage includes a wide range of services from routine preventive care and fillings to oral surgery, dentures, bridges and braces.

Delta Dental PPO

This plan provides the flexibility to choose any licensed dentist or specialist. The plan pays enhanced benefits when you visit a PPO network dentist; you pay only 20 percent of the PPO dentist’s contracted fee after your deductible for such services as fillings, oral surgery, root canals and treatment of gum disease. Or if you choose a Delta dentist outside the PPO network, such as a dentist in Delta Dental’s Premier network, you will be eligible for benefits as outlined in the Dental Plan Summary Plan Description.

If you choose to visit a non-PPO Delta Dental Premier dentist, you’ll still enjoy user-friendly claims administration, cost protections and other Delta Dental advantages, plus have access to more than 23,000 dentists in the state.

No plan changes for 2013:

DeltaCare^® USA (Dental HMO; California residents only)

This plan provides comprehensive benefits and easy referrals to specialists. You must be a resident of California to enroll. The plan emphasizes preventive care, so many services are provided at no cost. Other services are provided at modest copayments to you and there are no deductibles making this plan a very affordable option to members. There is no annual plan maximum for DeltaCare® USA.

When you enroll, you can select a network dentist to provide all of your basic dental service or the plan will assign you a dentist near your home. The DeltaCare USA network consists of private practice dental facilities that have been screened by Delta Dental for quality. You can change your dentist at any time by calling the DeltaCare Customer Service number and requesting the change.

Plan changes for 2013

• Federally mandated screenings, such as for children entering kindergarten, are offered at no cost.
• Preventive resin restoration for permanent teeth of children to age 15 offered at no cost.