What is Personal Dental?

Personal Dental is BEST Life’s new line of dental plans.  These dental plans are sold through the BEST Employers Association (“BEA”) and are available directly to individuals and families residing in California.  Personal Dental provides an affordable alternative and are designed for individuals not eligible for coverage on an employer plan. Dependent children who reach the [...]

Why does the cost of health care services vary by zip code?

As you shop around for health care and dental services, you may notice that the cost for these services vary by zip code.  What one dentist would charge in one area for the exact same services, may be more or less what a dentist would charge in another area. What one hospital charges for services [...]

Do you really know your health plan?

Part 2. Other ways to save money on healthcare In our last post we talked about how important it is to understand how your plan works. In this post we will offer more tips and tools to help you save on your BEST Life plan. Please keep in mind that this is for informational purposes [...]

Do you really know your health plan?

Part 1. What you need to know about your BEST Life dental or health plan You may not know it: your health plan has been designed to help save you money. Just by understanding how your plan works can save you anywhere from a few dollars up to a several thousand dollars depending on the [...]

New Benefits Added to BEST Life Dental Plans

Last November, new benefits were added to BEST Life’s Dental PPO and IndemnityPlus plans.  These benefits offer you more choices when you need dental work. In addition, we are in the process of making these benefits available to employer groups who renew with us beginning with December 1st, 2010 renewals.  So, if your group has [...]

Important Changes Effective 10/1/10

This posting is to keep you up-to-date on the implementation of health care reform required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) and other changes that went into effect as of October 1, 2010. New dental and vision dependent age limits.  As of October 1, 2010, married and unmarried dependents up to age [...]

Oral Piercing: Not as Safe as You Think

Piercing, like tattooing, is just one of today’s popular forms of “body art” and self-expression. Piercing may seem daring, cool and totally safe because some celebrities use piercing to flaunt their particular style or attitude. But piercing the tongue, lips, cheeks or uvula (the tiny tissue that hangs at the back of the throat) is [...]

Sippy Cups and Your Child’s Teeth

As soon as teeth appear in the mouth, decay can occur. One of the risk factors for early childhood caries (sometimes called baby bottle tooth decay or nursing mouth syndrome) is frequent and prolonged exposure of a baby’s teeth to liquids, such as fruit juice, milk or formula, which all contain sugar. Tooth decay can [...]

Quitting Tobacco: You can do it!

Do you smoke or use chewing tobacco? Rarely a day goes by without a magazine, newspaper, or TV news report carrying a message about tobacco-related medical problems —the dangers of lung disease, cancer, heart problems and low-birth weight babies. Perhaps you even tune out those messages because you don’t want to quit just yet—or you [...]

Are you prepared for a dental emergency?

Thousands of dental emergencies—from injuries to a painful, abscessed tooth—take place every day. Would you know what to do if your child broke a tooth or had a tooth knocked out while playing outdoors? What if you had a bad toothache in the middle of the night and couldn’t get to the dentist until the [...]