- What claims system do you use there?
- Should we welcome the idea of possibly being moved over to HCSC? Or should we run?
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They're transitioning to a new system this year.
Bluechip is an old 1970-1980 ASA CAPS application. IL staff that know that history are long gone. IL staff like to claim that the application was written in-house and that is simply NOT true. The application has been partially modernized into java, gui screens but the core claim adjudication is still Assembler and cobol.
You will be treated as step children. HCSC staff, especially IL staff are very difficult to work with. Most management in acquired company will eventually be let go, but not before HCSC uses them to get the merger completed. At first hcsc will appear amicable, that will quickly change. I pray for cigna staff. Speaking from OK merger.
10 vacation days is accurate, but they also give an additional 7 (this can change) "Diversity Days" that are essentially extra vacation days. They just classify them differently so they aren't an "earned benefit" that they have to pay out if you quit/get fired. You also get the yearly option to buy an additional five days. And after five years, you earn an additional week worth of days. And then another at ten year, and another at twenty, if I'm remembering correctly.
As far as cost of benefits, it's ok. Better than many companies for sure, but a bit pricey for a health insurance company. I remember as a single person it was pretty cheap, gets more cumbersome when covering a spouse and/or kids.
RUN
They hold people accountable who are outsiders not relatives to c suite and such.
I can see via the HCSC website you guys start off with 10 vacation days. Can you fill us in with how that changes the longer you work there?
How are health benefits? Costly, comprehensive, etc.?
Are there any rumors about us coming over?
Does management there at HCSC have a clue? Do they hold people accountable?
Run Cigna, run!
- BlueChip, it's firmly rooted in early 1980s technology so we can send claims info back and forth between all of the Blues plans outside of our 5 States. 2) It's probably too soon to tell, how horrible have you had it over there?