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Important News About Your BlueCare Coverage

Your BlueCare^® coverage offers the benefits and services you need to get and stay healthy. Occasionally, we make improvements to be sure you are getting the most comprehensive and the most cost-effective health care coverage available. From time to time, we also make operational changes to how you can access care or to our policies. The following is the most recent information you need to be sure you have access to all your covered benefits and services.

New Group Enrollment Application/Change Form - January 2008

From time to time BlueCross of Northeastern Pennsylvania updates the Enrollment Application/Change Form for Group Coverage. We’ve listened to our groups, and a new form was designed to make it as easier for both the group administrator and the enrollee to complete.

The top section is to be completed by the Group Administrator. It lists all group information needed for enrollment.

Sections 1 and 2 are applicant and dependent information which need to be completed in full. If there is any information not completed, the application will be returned unprocessed. The purpose is to be sure that all accurate and complete information is entered into our system to allow for processing of enrollment and eventual claim payment. Section 2 is continued on the reverse side of the application and must also be completed in full by the applicant.

Section 3 is general applicant information which needs to be completed. Section 4 is applicable for enrollment in BlueCare HMO Plus only and Section 5 needs to be read and signed by both the applicant and the Group Administrator.

Enrollment and Billing will continue to accept the old application forms for run out period which will not extend past June 1, 2008. The most recent application/change form is dated January, 2008 and that date is located in the bottom left-hand corner of the form. If you need to print the form, please visit the Group Administrator page of our website or call your Account Support Representative for a supply.

BlueCare POS is now BlueCare HMO Plus

A New Name, With All the Same Benefits and Services You Deserve.

Effective January 1, 2008, Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania will change the name of the BlueCare POS health care plan to BlueCare HMO Plus.

The name will change to more accurately reflect the benefits and services offered with this open-access HMO health care coverage plan.

Rest assured that only the name will change. There is no change in benefits or services you will receive. You will receive a new ID card within the next few weeks. Please destroy your old card and begin using the new ID card immediately. And, contracts will be updated with the new name and you will receive an updated contract upon your group’s renewal for 2008.

With BlueCare HMO Plus, you will continue to receive the same quality, comprehensive health care coverage from the most trusted name in health care for nearly 70 years.

BlueCare HMO Plus. All the same, but now with a new name.