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Easily find a dental provider at cseaebf.com
The CSEA Employee Benefit Fund (EBF) works continuously to expand our dental plan participating provider network.
When you use an EBF participating provider for your dental
needs, you are using
a plan designed to save our members and your dependents money.
How? By using a participating provider,
there are no deductibles
and
participating providers agree to accept EBF fee schedule payments as full payment for covered services.
The EBF dental plans provide flexibility by also allowing members to utilize non-participating providers. The important difference is that non-participating providers can balance bill for any differences between what the fee schedule pays and the provider’s normal office charge.
Do I have EBF coverage?
Determining whether you have coverage is easy. You can use the “Benefit Search” tool on the home page of cseaebf.com to see if your employer is listed. Your human resources office is always a good place to start with questions about the various benefit coverages you may have.
How do I locate an EBF
Participating Provider?
To search the EBF’s Dental and Vision Participating Providers, from the home page of cseaebf.com, click the “Provider Search” button.
• Select Dental or Vision.
• Select your search option: By
State, Zip Code, County, City or browse by alphabetical order.
• Then, click “Find Provider” and all providers in the selected area will appear.
• You can expand the Zip Code search by selecting a radius of 5, 10, 20 or 50 miles.
• By clicking the “All Specialties” button, you can get a list of all dental specialists who participate with the EBF.
How can my dentist join the EBF Participating Provider Network? Providers can locate how-to-join
information by visiting cseaebf.com and clicking the “Dental Provider Portal” in the lower left corner of the screen. You may also print out the forms and bring them to the office for your provider to consider. The EBF has a dental provider liaison available for any questions providers may have. The liaison can be reached by contacting the EBF’s Provider Relations Department at 800-323-2732, ext. 875.
Attention: Public Sector Local and Unit Presidents
Important Election Information:
The term of office for current Public Sector
Local and Unit officers will expire on June 30, 2017. Elections for office must be conducted and completed before the new term begins on July 1, 2017.
A letter was sent by the Statewide Election
Committee (SEC) in September to each Local and Unit
President requesting their Executive Boards to select
1) a Chairperson and Election Committee or 2) an
Election Meeting Chair (available to Locals and Units WORKERS
with 150 members or less), prior to October 15. Each
If you are
Local and Unit President was provided with and asked
to return one completed Election Data Form along
with Executive Board meeting minutes reflecting
the appointments. If this has not been completed,
please do so immediately. Please refer to the SEC’s
September letter for procedural requirements.
Once Election Committees/Election Meeting
Chairs are in place, beginning in February 2017,
each registered Chairperson will receive an election
package from CSEA to assist them in performing their
election duties. This material is necessary to have to
run a proper election.
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CSEA Headquarters cannot send material
to any Chairperson, without first receiving the
completed Election Data Form from the Local or
Unit President.
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Any questions about the election process can be answered by contacting the SEC at 1-800-342-4146,
extension 1447 or sec@cseainc.org.
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