Council 31 is aware that Unicare is telling HMO members that they have to use non-Rush Hospital doctors because of a failure to reach a service agreement with Rush Hospital. For your information, Unicare and Rush have a February 15th deadline for reaching an agreement, so this may still occur. If this does not occur, past practice is to allow Unicare HMO members to migrate to other HMOs or PPOs. Stay tuned for more information.
Cook County Public Defenders Blog
-
Categories
- Hot Legal Topics (46)
- In The News (147)
- Member Of The Month (6)
- Photos (5)
- President's Message (66)
- Uncategorized (19)
-
Archives
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
-
Meta
February 19th, 2008
What happend with this anything new?
February 20th, 2008
“rami”-Reportedly, members received a letter from Unicare outlining the situation and providing some instruction, including deadlines, on migrating to another plan. Additional information is not currently available to the local but if members have inquired directly with Department of Risk Managment (312) 603- 6422 on the results of talks between Rush and Unicare, feel free to update your brothers and sisters on this blog.
February 21st, 2008
An open enrollment letter was sent around February 1st allowing a switch by
February 15th to either Blue Cross/Blue Shield Illinois HMO or PPO. I called Rush Health Associates on February 20th to see if the contract between Unicare and Rush had terminated and was told yes it was terminated on the 15th. The new insurance goes into effect March 1st if you switched by
the deadline of Feb. 15th.