One of our members, who is directly affected by Unicare’s decision to leave Illinois, has provided me with the following update on the whole Unicare Health Insurance issue:
Today I spoke with a representative from Cook County Risk management regarding Unicare discontinuing services in Illinois and the arrangement with BlueCross/BlueShield(BC/BS) to provide replacement coverage. While NWMemorial Hospital, which accepted UnicareHMO, had previously not accepted BC/BS HMO, they have purportedly agreed to accept Cook County employees that were previously serviced by Unicare HMO, under BC/BS HMO.
The representative was unable to provide any written documentation of this agreement but said it was reached approximately one week ago. She added that soon to be former Unicare HMO members should be receiving their BC/BS HMO cards some time in late December.
If anyone has heard, or learns anything different regarding NWMemorial Hospital’s position regarding the Unicare ‘transition’ to BC/BS HMO please post your response under this posting.
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