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Ameritas Dental Insurance Review


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Ameritas is a Nebraska-based mutual insurance company founded in 1887. It offers a wide array of products and services, including health, life, and dental insurance, financial services, and other employee benefits. Ameritas holds an A.M. Best rating of A (Excellent), an S&P rating of A+ (Strong), and an A+ rating with the BBB.

Ameritas Dental Review

Ameritas Dental Insurance offers plans catered towards individuals and families. Rather than relying on dental insurance offered by your employer, Ameritas promotes independence. This is great especially when you find yourself moving to another job. Ameritas also offers discounts on prescriptions from Walmart or Sam's Club pharmacies, which could save you a couple more dollars on dental treatments.

What's included in Ameritas Dental?

MY DENTAL PLAN® HIGHLIGHTS

All plans pay a benefit toward covered services after the $50 per-person deductible.

Plans with either one or two exams and cleanings per year.

Dental Rewards® feature lets qualifying individuals earn an additional amount to add to their following year's annual maximum.

Plan 3 includes a $100 vision benefit to use for vision exams, frames, lenses and contact lenses.

Helps you save on prescription medications through Walmart or Sam's Club pharmacies. 

20/20 PLUS VISION PLAN HIGHLIGHTS

All plans offer vision, dental and hearing care benefits with no waiting or elimination periods.

Plan C offers increasing annual maximum benefits.

Enjoy the freedom to see your choice of vision care provider

Save up to 15% on eyewear frames and lenses purchased at any Walmart Vision Center nationwide. 

Receive savings on prescriptions at Walmart or Sam's Club pharmacies, and eyewear frames and lenses purchased at any Walmart Vision Center. 

Plan Reviewed

MY DENTAL PLAN®

How much does it save you?

preventive 80% plan 1, 100% plan 2 and plan 3

Basic 50% for plan 1 and 2, 80% for plan 3

Major plan 1 not covered, 50% for plan 2 and plan 3

Annual Maximum

plan 1 $500, plan 2 $1000, plan 3 $1500

Treatments Covered and Reimbursement

Covers all treatments but Major services are only covered with extra premiums.

Fine Print

No waiting periods if you were covered by another dental plan within 30 days of the date the application was received.

When you visit an Ameritas PPO network provider, the amount allowed for each covered procedure is based on the Maximum Allowable Charge (MAC). 

 

Summary

Ameritas Dental focuses its services towards providing individuals and families with better dental coverage. It gives them independence in choosing dental plans tailored to their specific needs.


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73 Customer Comments & Reviews

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Kyle L
9/11/2015
I would avoid them as Dental Insurer like a plague. They offer outdated plans that don't support modern dental technology. So, your Dentist will use a modern procedure code that will equate to Ameritas' outdated pay code and you are on the hook for the remaining balance. This company salivates at the possibility of rejecting/denying a claim or score a small win by reducing their exposure in funding the claim. Their coverage is merely snake oil in the grand scheme of it.


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Derek F
9/3/2015
Pays very little of overall dental bill for cleaning and X-ray. Hidden deductible I wasn't informed about when signing up.


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Jeff M
1/5/2015
Preventive procedures covered 100 percent? Not so fast. I'm 48 years old and had my first root canal and crown this year. Ameritas coverage softened the blow, but it still me $885 out of my own pocket. Then -- SURPRISE! -- I got stuck with the full cost of my next regularly scheduled checkup/cleaning. The preventative appointment wasn't covered at all because Ameritas caps total benefits paid during a calendar year (lumping "preventative" in with everything else). Worst part about it? If I had waited three weeks, it would've been paid in full. So because I followed my dentist's schedule and not my crappy insurer's schedule, I get stuck paying what amounts to a $140 penalty.



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