Ameritas and BEST Health Plans Break New Ground with Marketing and Service Agreement.Business Editors & Insurance Writers LINCOLN, Neb. & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002 Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and BEST Life and Health Insurance Company today announced their new marketing and service agreement under which BEST Health Plans will market Ameritas Group Dental plans. A national marketer of small group dental plans, BEST Health Plans also will be working with Ameritas to provide new dental coverage to existing customers. Effective January 1, 2002, approximately 190 groups, all fewer than 50 lives, transitioned to Ameritas. At that time, BEST began marketing a variety of Ameritas Group Dental products, including small group, tailored and prepaid plans. This partnership spawns some ground-breaking firsts for both companies. Ameritas is integrating BEST's distribution with its own field distribution system. Ameritas' Western Regional office in Costa Mesa Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif., is the first of Ameritas' sales offices to work directly with a partner to quote new business. Also for the first time in an Ameritas partnering arrangement, BEST is quoting Ameritas prepaid products in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . All prepaid quotes will go through Ameritas Managed Dental Plan, Inc. (AMDP AMDP Agricultural Mechanization Development Program (Philippines) AMDP Advanced Management Development Program AMDP Aircraft Maintenance Delayed for Parts AMDP Adenosine Monophosphate Deaminase AMDP Air and Missile Defense Plan ), Ameritas' prepaid subsidiary in California. "Our counterparts at BEST have shown peak interest in getting this agreement underway," said Dave Moore Dave Moore is an English name which may refer to:
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. "The diversity that this arrangement brings to Ameritas Group Dental is unprecedented, and we have high hopes for this new distribution." "This arrangement enables BEST Health Plans to provide agents with more choices in dental products," said Steve Course, president of BEST Health Plans. "Ameritas is known nationally for its expertise in the dental market, and we are privileged to partner in this new endeavor. This new relationship helps fulfill our strategic goals of working with agents in all 50 states. BEST Health Plans looks forward to a great 2002 and beyond as more small businesses add quality dental plans." Ameritas Group Dental, a division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., an Ameritas Acacia acacia (əkā`shə), any plant of the large leguminous genus Acacia, often thorny shrubs and trees of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Company, offers group dental and eye care products nationwide. In New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , products are offered through First Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York. Ameritas also offers expertise in dental block consolidation. Other Ameritas Acacia products and services include life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, banking, retirement strategies and investments. For details about Ameritas, visit www.YourDentalSolutions.com (www.NY.YourDentalSolutions.com in New York) or www.ameritasacacia.com. Operating out of Irvine, Calif., BEST specializes in group insurance and employee benefits, providing life, health, dental, vision and long-term disability insurance for employer groups throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For details about BEST Health Plans, visit www.BestHealthPlans.com. |
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