Have you or your family had to deal with those pesky wisdom teeth coming in?\u00a0 You may automatically think that extractions of wisdom teeth are a dental expense, but this is not necessarily true.\u00a0 If you are covered by both our medical and dental plans, you need to know the status of the tooth itself before you know how it is covered. \u00a0NMC\u2019s medical plan will cover the extraction if it is an impacted or partially impacted tooth \u2013 one that has not emerged through the gum. \u00a0NMC\u2019s dental insurance will cover the extraction if it is not covered by our medical insurance, so if the tooth has emerged through the gum, it is covered by your NMC dental insurance.\u00a0 If you have several teeth to extract and some are impacted and some are not, you may be dealing with both insurances.<\/p>\n
If you have only one type of coverage with NMC, for instance you have our dental plan but another medical plan, then you will need to coordinate the coverage based on what your medical plan covers.\u00a0 This may take a little more research.<\/p>\n
Since coverage may be difficult for you to determine by yourself, you or your doctor can call for guidance on where to bill.\u00a0 For dental questions, call ASR at 1-800-968-2448 X3135 and speak with Rick Davison.\u00a0 For medical questions, call Priority Health at 1-800-956-1954.<\/p>\n
If you have any questions about this or your other benefits, feel free to contact Human Resources at 995-1362 or 995-1025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our focus this week: dental work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1056,1439,60],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercom","tag-benefits","tag-benefits-corner","tag-human-resources"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n