How It Works
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has a long history of providing dental coverage. In fact, we have been meeting the dental care needs of our members for more than 40 years.

Our full suite of Dental Blue^® plans are designed to meet your budget. Depending on the size of your organization, you can offer your employees everything from preventive dental services to comprehensive orthodontic and prosthodontic services. Many plans are highly customizable, allowing for true cost sharing and cost savings for your organization and your employees.

Network
The Dental Blue network of providers is established here in Massachusetts and across the country. Whether your organization is based primarily in Massachusetts or has a workforce that spans the country, employees can find a network provider nearby.

• Access more than 90 percent of the providers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island through the Dental Blue traditional indemnity network.
• Dental Blue PPO^SM provides access to in-network care through more than 2,700 provider locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
• Each Dental Blue plan offers access to a network of nearly 103,000 provider locations nationwide.

Enhanced Dental Benefits
Enhanced Dental Benefits is a benefit design option that offers members diagnosed with diabetes, coronary artery disease, or who are pregnant additional, specific support. These benefits offer full coverage for preventive and periodontal services that have been connected to the total health of individuals with these conditions.

What's the connection? Clinical studies have shown a relationship between periodontal disease—the most common infectious disease in adults—and the control of diabetes and the severity of heart disease. In addition, periodontal disease among pregnant women has been associated with an increased risk of delivering a preterm, low-birthweight baby.

Coordinated Dental and Medical Care Strategies

• Our Total Health Program
  We provide educational information to all participants in our Blue Care Connection^® diabetes program about the role that good oral health plays in controlling diabetes. Dental Blue members enrolled in our Blue Care Connection diabetes program who have not used their dental benefits for preventive and periodontal services during the preceding 12 months are contacted by telephone to offer encouragement and assistance in obtaining appropriate dental care.
• Living Healthy Babies^®'
  This resource provides moms-to-be with education about the connection between oral health and prenatal health, and promotes regular dental checkups.

Dental Blue Resources:

• View an overview of our Dental Blue plan categories
• See a detailed comparison of our dental options (available soon)