Dental
Overview and Eligibility
The Company offers dental coverage through Aetna designed to help you and your covered family members maintain a healthy smile through regular preventive care and to fix any problems when they occur.
Dental Plans
Aetna Dental Maintenance Organization Plan (DMO) is an HMO for teeth providing only in-network coverage that is coordinated by your primary care dentist (PCD). There is no deductible to meet and you pay a flat copay for services that are not fully covered by the plan, such as restorative services and orthodontics.
Aetna Dental Preferred Provider Organization Plan (PPO) offers cost sharing that kicks in after you meet the annual deductible (the deductible doesn't apply for in-network preventive and diagnostic care). Orthodontia is not covered under this plan. You can see any provider you wish, but you will pay less when you use an Aetna network dentist. Click here to learn more.
Plan Comparison
Use the Dental Plan Comparison chart to compare the current Aetna DMO and PPO plans.
8/1/2023 - 7/31/2024 dental plan comparison chart for the Aetna DMO and PPO plans.
Who’s eligible?
Telepictures, WAG, Unscripted Television and WB Scripted Television/TV Affiliates employees who meet the eligibility criteria may enroll themselves, their spouse or domestic partner, and their dependent child(ren) up to age 26 in Company-sponsored dental coverage. For eligibility details, refer to the Summary Plan Description, Summary of Material Modifications (9/13/21) and List of Participating Employers. Note: You will need to provide a copy of your marriage certificate in order to enroll your spouse, birth certificates to enroll your children and the Domestic Partner Affidavit to enroll your domestic partner.
You can choose from three coverage levels: Employee only, Employee + 1, or Family
How to enroll
As a new hire: Take these steps to enroll within 30 days of your eligibility date.
During Open Enrollment: Complete and submit the Open Enrollment Form available on this website during the open enrollment window each year. Outside of annual Open Enrollment, you can only make changes to your benefits if you experience a qualified life event such as a birth, marriage, divorce, loss of other coverage, etc.
How the DMO plan works
You receive in-network preventive and diagnostic care at no cost, including routine exams, cleanings, fluoride treatments, and diagnostic X-rays.
For restorative services and orthodontics, the plan offers 100% coverage after you pay a flat copay.
There is no calendar year maximum so there is no limit to the amount of benefits the plan will pay in a year for certain eligible expenses.
More about the DMO plan
How the PPO plan works
• You receive in-network preventive and diagnostic care at no cost, including routine exams, cleanings, fluoride treatments, and diagnostic X-rays.
• For restorative services, you must first meet a deductible. Once the deductible is met, you’ll pay a percentage of your expenses with the plan paying the remainder; this amount is called your coinsurance.
• If you meet the calendar year maximum, you’ll be responsible for 100% of the cost for the remainder of the calendar year.
More about the PPO plan
• Find in-network providers
• Aetna Dental PPO Claim Form
• Summary of Benefits & Coverage / Benefits Summary
• Schedule of Benefits
• Booklet - Certificate
Employee Contribution Premiums
If you are paid by EP on or after January 1, 2024, you will pay your employee contributions through before-tax payroll deductions.
If you are paid by Cast & Crew on a grandfathered production prior to December 31, 2023, you will pay your employee contributions through before-tax payroll deductions. Your before-tax payroll deductions will continue into 2024 if you are paid by Cast & Crew as long as you are working on a project or show that was in production before January 1, 2024.
If you are paid by Cast & Crew on or after January 1, 2024, and you are working on a new project or new show that begins (or began) production on or after January 1, 2024, you will be direct billed for your employee contributions.
Click here for the contribution premiums for your coverage.
Additional Useful Information
Stay healthy with enhanced dental benefits. If you are pregnant or have diabetes or heart disease, your dental plan will automatically coverage an extra cleaning or visit to a dentist to treat gum disease. Click here to learn more.
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As required each year under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), TW Ventures Inc. files financial information on its benefit plans with the Internal Revenue Service. ERISA also requires that a summary of this information be distributed to employees. Click here for information on the health and welfare benefit plans in effect from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The format of the Summary Annual Report is prescribed by Department of Labor regulations. Please note that these plans may not be applicable to you or your production.