SCD's celebration of patients.
August 29th, 2019
When your patient gets all her treatment done on her birthday and spends the morning with you.....YOU CELEBRATE HER!! Happiest of Birthdays to you Rhonda!!
When your patient gets all her treatment done on her birthday and spends the morning with you.....YOU CELEBRATE HER!! Happiest of Birthdays to you Rhonda!!
Happy ✨20✨ Years with Southcenter Dental!! We are the luckiest team around!
As many of you have heard, the Washington State Education Association, Seattle Public Schools, and Bethel School Districts will be a part of the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) on January 1, 2020.
The SEBB will administer health insurance and other benefits for all school district employees across the state on January 1, 2020. Open enrollment for school employees begins this October.
The vast majority of school district employees are already covered through our benefit plans. This change means that more teachers will have the option to choose us for dental benefits, which may result in an increase of teachers and school employees covered by our plans.
Through SEBB, employees can choose from three different coverages:
SEBB UDP plan benefits will be the same as the PEBB Uniform Dental Plan, group #03000. A general breakdown of the percentages and maximums for payment with an in-network, Delta Dental PPO provider is:
Open enrollment for SEBB will begin on October 1st and run through November 15th.
Online, the benefit period is showing 11/1/18 – 12/31/2019 for Washington Education Association (WEA) group 00186, why is this?
The Washington Education Association (00186) will be changing on January 1, 2020 to the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB). This new plan will be a calendar year plan. Due to this, on January 1, patients will have a new plan maximum and their benefit year frequencies will renew.
To accommodate for the extended benefit period, the Washington Education Association added additional funds and frequencies through the end of December. The benefit period maximum for group 00186 was increased to $2300 for patients who see a PPO provider, and $2000 if a patient sees a provider outside the PPO network. Additionally, there was a 3rdpreventative care visit added that includes a periodic exam, and a cleaning.
Are you going to have all Washington State teachers next year?
Under the Washington Education Association plans (00186, 00187 and 00188), we currently cover a large majority of teachers in Washington State. Additionally, several school districts offered coverage outside the WEA. These school districts will also be covered under the SEBB program beginning January 1, 2020. There is a strong potential that more teachers and school district employees will choose to be covered by us as a result of the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) changes in 2020.
It’s important to note that Washington State teachers will have 3 choices for dental coverage next year including our PPO NETWORK, our DeltaCare plan-HMO, and Willamette Dental.
If you have questions about these changes we are happy to help! Please call us at 206.575.1551