for or in connection with experimental procedures or treatment methods not approved by the American Dental Association or the appropriate dental specialty society.
Allowable Expense The amount of charges considered for payment under the plan for a Covered Service prior to any reductions due to coinsurance, copayment or deductible amounts. If Cigna contracts with an entity to arrange for the provision of Covered Services through that entity’s contracted network of health care providers, the amount that Cigna has agreed to pay that entity is the allowable amount used to determine your coinsurance or deductible payments. If the Plan provides benefits in the form of services, the Reasonable Cash Value of each service is the Allowable Expense and is a paid benefit. Examples of expenses or services that are not Allowable Expenses include, but are not limited to the following: An expense or service or a portion of an expense or service that is not covered by any of the Plans is not an Allowable Expense. If you are covered by two or more Plans that provide services or supplies on the basis of reasonable and customary fees, any amount in excess of the highest reasonable and customary fee is not an Allowable Expense. If you are covered by one Plan that provides services or supplies on the basis of reasonable and customary fees and one Plan that provides services and supplies on the basis of negotiated fees, the Primary Plan's fee arrangement shall be the Allowable Expense. If your benefits are reduced under the Primary Plan (through the imposition of a higher copayment amount, higher coinsurance percentage, a deductible and/or a penalty) because you did not comply with Plan provisions or because you did not use a preferred provider, the amount of the reduction is not an Allowable Expense. Such Plan provisions include second surgical opinions and precertification of admissions or services. Claim Determination Period A calendar year, but does not include any part of a year during which you are not covered under this policy or any date before this section or any similar provision takes effect. Reasonable Cash Value An amount which a duly licensed provider of health care services usually charges patients and which is within the range of fees usually charged for the same service by other health care providers located within the immediate geographic area where the health care service is rendered under similar or comparable circumstances.
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Coordination of Benefits This section applies if you or any one of your Dependents is covered under more than one Plan and determines how benefits payable from all such Plans will be coordinated. You should file all claims with each Plan. Definitions For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings set forth below: Plan Any of the following that provides benefits or services for medical or dental care or treatment: Group insurance and/or group-type coverage, whether insured or self-insured which neither can be purchased by the general public, nor is individually underwritten, including closed panel coverage. Governmental benefits as permitted by law, excepting Medicaid, Medicare and Medicare supplement policies. Medical benefits coverage of group, group-type, and individual automobile contracts. Each Plan or part of a Plan which has the right to coordinate benefits will be considered a separate Plan. Closed Panel Plan A Plan that provides medical or dental benefits primarily in the form of services through a panel of employed or contracted providers, and that limits or excludes benefits provided by providers outside of the panel, except in the case of emergency or if referred by a provider within the panel. Primary Plan The Plan that determines and provides or pays benefits without taking into consideration the existence of any other Plan. Secondary Plan A Plan that determines, and may reduce its benefits after taking into consideration, the benefits provided or paid by the Primary Plan. A Secondary Plan may also recover from the Primary Plan the Reasonable Cash Value of any services it provided to you.
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