I’m wondering if any HCSC employees have moved into a role that directly supports the Health Spring business yet? I don’t mean your team is ‘getting work’ or ‘waiting for access to start working on HS stuff’. I mean, you have onboarded into a role that is directly supporting Health Spring now. Since many of their people have quit and transitioned employees can’t apply for anything for 1 year, I figure HCSC employees are moving into the roles. What is the process like since the systems aren’t integrated yet? Anything odd come up that you didn’t expect?
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@ae Cigna was smart enough to see the writing on the wall... HCSC didn't see behind the current and fell for the wizard of OZ.
@OP My understanding there are hundreds of contractors within HealthSpring who's contract is up at the end of first quarter of 2026. So there will need to be some investment/integration between HS and HCSC or a larger investment to sign new contracts for those contractors. Given, who knows that may be why the layoffs are occurring now - Maybe to save money for those contractors.
@va Really. Anyone know why? There seem to be issues on both sides of HS. The west and East but West seems much worse.
I can understand HCSC not replacing workers but with HS those people that left are the ones that are more familiar with the business. Just odd they wouldn’t fill those and try to get people up to speed asap.
Isn't HS mostly on a hiring freeze with very few positions having been approved for rehire?
@pz oh yeah. Because it’s them. Pfft. Tell me you’re a legacy employee without telling me you’re a legacy employee. Maybe the poster meant ‘boomer’.
@p5 Are these Legacy employees who can’t or won’t adapt the same Legacy employees who have worked for decades to retain the number one payor position in all five Plan states?
@gx Funny because that’s the exact experience I’m in now. The difference is it’s with people that are legacy employees, that don’t want to fix anything because their minds can’t comprehend collaboration, change and improvement. I’m fine with ambiguity and no direction, as long as people aren’t trying to restrict actual resolve. I’m sick of being with people that just want to let stuff ‘figure itself out’ or ‘wait and see’ or ‘work around’ something to death and with no attempt to permanently fix anything or change anything.
I haven't seen many of those vacated roles get posted, let alone filled by internal HCSC candidates. Lots of people are working with both Blue and Health Spring teams and systems though, and it is complicated but can be interesting work if you don't mind a lot of ambiguity and lack of real direction.
A known brand that includes being known for sanctions and failed CMS audits.
Cigna rebranded us for a reason.
Interesting. I think some of you don’t listen. The national products and expansion will rollout Jan 2027. Originally it was 2028.
The company’s resources are going towards national movement. If you’re in a local plan role then you should be looking to move to a role that supports the national expansion and products. The money, jobs, and opportunities will be pushed to the national side. How many of you complaining about workloads and not having enough people support a local plan? Yeah, get the scraps, after you beg for them.. Don’t forget the Cigna people are guaranteed their pay for 1 year only.
@ae from which Blue? Doubt it was any larger Blue...
@ae Healthspring is a known brand, especially in the Southeast. Unless all members disenroll, Healthspring will have more members than Blue MA, so not sure what you are saying. The problem is that if Blue manages Healthspring like they have been managing Blue MA, they will ki-l it off in 3-5 years.
@ae what is our second blue bid
@OP do you mean willingly move into a Healthspring role? Or forced into it?
I mean, we just won our first “second blue bid” client after throwing 2 years and millions of dollars at it, it wouldn’t surprised me if it were 4-5 years before “HealthSpring” is a known player, if it ever is.