Blue Options/Blue Choice Options Plan Hospital Search

The Blue Options/Blue Choice Options plan continues to be a great option for groups to offer to their employees. However, one of the main concerns members have is if their hospital is in the Blue Options plan. To explore this, I tried an experiment to confirm if the hospitals in the large BCBS PPO network were all in the Blue Options plan. Using the BCBS IL provider finder:  I created a list of all hospitals within a 100 mile radius of 60173 in the large PPO network. 122 hospitals were listed. I clicked on the name of every hospital on the above list to see what networks were listed. Most showed Blue Options/Blue Choice Options as a network. For those hospitals that did not show the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network, I individually checked under the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network. All of the hospitals on this list showed the large PPO network. Every one of the hospitals on the list in item 4 showed they were Tier 2 in the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Tier 2: Participating Provider Organization Advocate Lutheran General [...]

2021-06-15T21:46:10-05:00Uncategorized|

Streamline your BCBS IL group enrollment with DocuSign

BCBS IL and DocuSign   Imagine a world where all you need is your portable electronic device and you can complete the enrollment paperwork for a business to apply for a BCBS IL small group health plan.     Recently, BCBS IL presented the DocuSign enrollment tool to the staff at MIBS.   We were all impressed and played at being agents, sending out enrollment paperwork and filling it out too.  I was excited to see how easy and fast it actually was.   Each step of the process is designed to save time, increase accuracy of entered data and provide legible electronically signed documents to the group, the agent, and your MIBS CSR without printing forms, hand writing information, scanning or faxing. Ok, I know some of you will jump on this like, “Patty, tell me how!”   And there are those of my friends who will groan and sigh and say, “I can’t do that technology thing.”   Well, it really is not that hard. In an effort to make this as easy as possible, MIBS created a guide with step by step instructions on how to use Docusign.   You [...]

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