One of our members, who is directly affected by Unicare’s decision to leave\u00a0 Illinois, has provided me with \u00a0the following update on the whole Unicare Health Insurance issue:<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of our members, who is directly affected by Unicare’s decision to leave\u00a0 Illinois, has provided me with \u00a0the following update on the whole Unicare Health Insurance issue: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The representative was unable to provide any written documentation of this agreement but said it was reached approximately one week ago.\u00a0 She added that soon to be former Unicare HMO members should be receiving their BC\/BS HMO cards some time in late December.\u00a0
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