Has anyone heard high level if HCSC will really merge former Cigna EEs or will they continue to be handled very separately? Many teams have yet to be more fully integrated and continue to be referred to as the greens & the blues by upper leadership.
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@nm you must be new here..... LOL
It willI be interesting to see how we integrate in the future, since HCSC has to market former Cigna brands as something else other than BCBS and the fact that we are on different systems.
@nr2, 2-3 years??? Yikes!!!
@j9 The first transition period will not end until March of next year when the former Cigna business finishes the system migrations and is disconnected from the Cigna network. Still being connected to a competitor's network is a huge blocker to HCSC folks being able to work in or on the Medicare business. Once those migrations are complete, the Medicare business will still be "separate" from a systems perspective. It will be 2-3 years before we can be fully integrated technically.
Part of the acquisition was a transition period. I’m not sure when that ends, but don’t expect much to change before that.
It seems as if HCSC didn't know what it was doing when it acquired Cigna medicare. The simple minds of HCSC thought everything was going to be so simple. Once again, HCSC's lack of vision failed to see the complexities with the acquisition. And now HCSC will turn to it's solution for all of its problems, the layoff.
No one knows what they're going to actually do with people, but these are the circumstances in which decisions are being made.
@cm Does this mean we actually aren’t being fully absorbed into HCSC? That makes it sound like we’ll remain separate and siloed especially if we live in non-HCSC states.
HCSC already started the rebrand folks before Cigna acquisition closed HCSC branded products… this was thought of the footprint was needed.
@cn *can’t sell the Cigna business in non-HCSC states.
Yes, what the other person said.
HCSC needs to consider how they will do business, and expand in the non-HCSC states. The Association governs the states/BCBS plans, so HCSC can sell the Cigna business, in the non-HCSC states. That’s because there are other BCBS plans already established there, so it’d require an acquisition or merging with one of those state plans which is not going to happen. HCSC now has to rebrand to sell/use that plan in those states.
There will be merging/repurposing/merging. From a BCBS/Association perspective, HCSC cannot do business in the non-HCSC states, under the BCBS umbrella. That means the non-HCSC states, Cigna business/staff, will be rebranded to be sold and maintained in those non-HCSC states. They will do this to expand other lines of business, too, in those non HCSC states. The ones supporting the local(HCSC plans) will merge/redeploy to support all HCSC businesses needs, not just Cigna/Medicare business.
Any layoff will be mid mgmt because Cigna is/was top heavy.
To piggyback on this topic, as a former Cigna EE, just wondering whether HCSC is likely to offer a voluntary separation package next March/April at the one-year mark to the "greens."