Dean Health Plan Updates
Dean Health Plan Receives
NCQA Excellent Accreditation
Dean Health Plan has once again been awarded the highest level of accreditation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its commercial HMO product line.

Is Your Child Ready for School?
It’s back-to-school time! Before your children enter the classroom, they need to be up-to-date on their immunizations, including the chickenpox vaccine.

Being a Dean Health Plan Member
You deserve the best service and health care possible. It is important to us that your rights as a member of Dean Health Plan are respected.

Feature Articles
Spotting Symptoms
Every year, women faithfully make the trip to their gynecologist and get their Pap test. This exam can help find cervical cancer.

Protect Yourself From Medical Errors
Serious medical errors, such as removing the wrong limb or performing an unneeded operation, may make headlines, yet they are quite rare.

Help for the Helper
Caring for someone you love who is sick or disabled is never easy. When the illness affects your loved one’s state of mind, the demands placed on you can be especially difficult.

Additional Updates
Provider Updates
Here is the list of new physicians, health care professionals, health care centers and pharmacies that have joined the Dean Health Plan provider network. They will be added to the next printing of the directory. Please attach this list to your Dean Health Plan Provider Directory.

Changes to Service Updates
These physicians, health care professionals, health care centers and pharmacies are no longer providing services in the locations listed below (they may have moved to another location) or are no longer plan providers of the Dean Health Plan network. They will be deleted from the next printing of the directory or will be listed at their new locations.

Updated Drug Prior-Authorization List
The medications on this page require prior authorization by Dean Health Plan. Brand names (in capital letters) are listed for informational purposes only.

Exclusions to Your Dean Health Plan Drug Benefit
We have a panel of physicians from many different specialties to evaluate new drugs. If an excluded drug has been prescribed for you, ask your physician or pharmacist if he or she can substitute it with one of the medications we cover.

Past Issues
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Summer 2004
Spring 2004
Winter 2004
Fall 2003
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
Winter 2003
Fall 2002
Summer 2002
Spring 2002
Winter 2002
Fall 2001
Summer 2001

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