Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Your Dental Benefits 'In Brief'


The information provided on this page is only a brief description of the Benefit Plans offered to participants under the Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund. For detailed information on the medical plan options available to you, including copay, deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximums, please log-in and download the Plan’s Summary Plan Description in the Documents/Forms section of this website.


Dental Benefits - For Active Employees and Dependents Only

The Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust Fund offers you a choice of dental care programs - a PREPAID DENTAL PLAN, which requires you to use one of a list of Dental Offices which are part of the Plan, or an INDEMNITY DENTAL PLAN, which permits you to go to any Dentist of your choice.

The Prepaid Dental Plan is a direct service plan provided for active Employees and their Dependents through a contract between the Board of Trustees of the Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust Fund and Liberty Dental Plan. Liberty has developed a customized network of private dental offices specific to the needs of the Trust Fund. You may obtain this customized list by contacting the Fund Administrative Office.

If you select this plan, you will be required to choose a Prepaid Dental Office for all of your dental care needs. You and your Dependents must receive all of your dental care from the same Prepaid Dental Office. The Prepaid Dental Plan provides many dental services without charge; however, some dental procedures will require a fee, or “Surcharge.”

If you or any of your Dependents go to a dentist other than a dentist at the Prepaid Dental Office in which you are enrolled, this Plan will not provide any payment of, or reimbursement toward dental fees which you incur.

The Indemnity Dental Plan is a self-funded plan provided by the Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust Fund. The obligation of the Trustees to provide the benefits set forth in this Plan shall be limited to the extent that funds are available to provide such benefits and shall not, in any event, be construed as an obligation to provide such benefits.

If you choose the Indemnity Dental Plan, you may receive services from any dental health professional practicing within the scope of his or her license.

The Trust Fund has a contract with Anthem Blue Cross. Under that contract Anthem Blue Cross maintains and supervises a network of participating dentists that have agreed to render services to the Fund's Participants and Dependents under a specified fee schedule. A list of Preferred Provider Dentists and the address and telephone number of each dental office may be obtained from the Fund Administrative Office.