Taken from http://www.tricare.com/
Effective May 1, 2012, MetLife will become the dental carrier for the TDP. MetLife will begin providing dental coverage to over 2 million family members of uniformed ser-vice active duty personnel, mem-bers of the Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve, their eligible family members, and Survi-vors.
Beneficiaries will have access to MetLife's network with over 161,000 dentist access points, and this number continues to grow.
Additional information about the contract is available at www.tricare.mil/TDPcontract and benefit updates are available at http://www.tricare.mil/.
PLEASE NOTE that the change to MetLife is for the TDP program only.
Changes to the TDP will include enhanced dental coverage at a lower premium share than before. MetLife will distribute program information, provider network de-tails beginning in first quarter 2012.
Highlights to the benefits and en-hancements are listed below:
- Coverage of posterior resin (tooth colored/white) fillings
- Increase in the annual maxi-mum to $1,300 per enrollee (formerly this was $1,200)
- Increase in the lifetime ortho-dontic maximum to $1,750
- $1,200 per year for services related to dental treatment due to an accident as de-fined in the TDP handbook
- No cost shares for scaling and root planing (deep clean-ing) for diabetics
- Coverage of an additional (3rd) cleaning for women during pregnancy
- Expansion of the survivor benefits to surviving spouse and child(ren)
Additional information about the contract is available at www.tricare.mil/TDPcontract and benefit updates are available at http://www.tricare.mil/.
The TRICARE Dental Program plan year will be from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013 when MetLife as-sumes the program.
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