Overview

Provider Type

  • Physicians
  • Participating Physician Groups (PPG) 
    (does not apply to HSP)

Some Medicare Advantage members have basic and/or restorative dental coverage.  For a comprehensive list of covered dental services for these members, refer to the member's Evidence of Coverage (EOC) or Schedule of Benefits. Although Dental Benefit Providers (DBP) administers the dental benefit for many Wellcare By Health Net plans, the vendor that administers the dental benefit is plan-specific.

When a member is hospitalized for non-covered dental treatment only, neither the professional services of the dentist nor the inpatient hospital services are covered. However, if a member is hospitalized for a non-covered dental procedure and hospitalization is required to ensure proper medical management, control or treatment of a non-dental impairment, the inpatient hospital services are covered. An example is a member with a history of repeated heart attacks who is hospitalized in order to undergo extensive dental treatment.

General anesthesia and associated facility services are covered when the clinical status or underlying medical condition of the member requires that an ordinarily non-covered dental service normally treated in the dentist's office without general anesthesia must instead be treated in a hospital or outpatient surgical center.

For questions pertaining Medicare coverage and dental services, contact the Health Net Medicare Member Services Department.