Committee hears employee complaints about dental network after DHMO rollout

Committee members reported widespread employee dissatisfaction with the recently implemented dental DHMO option, saying many workers selected the low-cost plan only to discover their dentist was not in-network. Staff said the DHMO has a smaller network by design and that the county's enrollment system requires employees to pick a participating dentist at sign-up; nomination forms exist for dentists to join the Sigma network.