{"id":3143,"date":"2017-06-04T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:52:44","slug":"acps-is-transitioning-to-carefirst-bluedental-plus-insurance-from-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/acps-is-transitioning-to-carefirst-bluedental-plus-insurance-from-july\/","title":{"rendered":"ACPS is Transitioning to CareFirst BlueDental Plus Insurance from July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective July 1, CareFirst will be the new dental insurance carrier, replacing the current dental insurance carrier MetLife.<\/p>\n<p>All dental participants will transition to CareFirst BlueDental Plus plan and receive a new CareFirst dental ID card. This change will provide members with access to a broad dental provider network,the\u00a0 same dental coverage and lower premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Employees enrolled in the dental plan will receive a new ID card from CareFirst on or before July 1, 2017. This is a separate ID card from the pharmacy ID Card with CareFirst CVS\/Caremark.<\/p>\n<p>To find out if your dentist is in the CareFirst BlueDental Plus network, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carefirst.com\/acps\">ACPS portal on the CareFirst website<\/a>. You may also contact CareFirst at 1-888-755-2657.<\/p>\n<p>If your dentist does not participate in the CareFirst BlueDental Plus network, the dentist may contact CareFirst at 443-921-0676 to be included in the network. A dentist who participates in the network will accept CareFirst\u2019s negotiated fees as payment in full, keeping your out of pocket cost for dental care low.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information on orthodontic benefits and other dental plan coverage is available in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carefirst.com\/acps\">ACPS portal on the CareFirst website<\/a>\u00a0under &#8220;Plan Information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get details on the transition to CareFirst BlueDental Plus and what it means for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 11:42:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}