Over the last few years, we’ve been busy beavers working to ensure our dental coverage is the most beneficial to you and your family, while also balancing the increasing cost of dental services to the benefit plan.

Every year, we review our benefit offerings to ensure they continue to meet the needs of our covered members (that’s you!), while also ensuring the financial stability of the plan. Our main goal is to support the health and wellness of you and your family, now and in the future. Through consultation with our Health Benefits Advisory Panel, newly formed Oral Health Advisory Panel and the prudent leadership of the ASEBP Trustees, a number of benefit changes designed to help us continue to meet this goal will take effect on January 1, 2019.

The ASEBP Trustees have approved the addition of two health conditions—ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis—to our enhanced special authorization (ESA) process, effective January 1, 2018.