Ancillary Benefits Firm To Add Hearing Rider

A unit of Starmount Life Insurance Company will be offering group dental and vision plan customers help with insuring employees’ ears.

AlwaysCare Benefits will work with Ear Professionals International Corp., City of Industry, Calif., to sell an insured hearing benefit rider with existing AlwaysCare dental and vision plans, according to AlwaysCare, which is part of Starmount, Baton Rouge, La.

The rider will provide access to a network of 3,400 audiologists and other hearing experts, along with discounts on hearing aids and telephone access to experts who can answer hearing-related questions, AlwaysCare says.