Products & Services
The Heartland Healthcare Coalition utilizes the leverage of its large block of lives represented by our members to purchase health care products and services at a very competitive price while insuring a high level of quality and service.
Our current value added products and services include:
Centers of Excellence
Dental Plans (Regional & National)
CIGNA Dental
www.cigna.com
CIGNA Dental offers a variety of dental plan options for Employers to choose from, including PPO’s and Traditional Indemnity plans. CIGNA Dental PPO’s, for example, let your employees choose any dentist, in or out of the preferred network. Coverage includes most preventive procedures at low cost or no cost to members. Network dentists agree not to bill members for the difference between plan payment and usual fees, which saves your employees out of pocket expenses.
Delta Dental of Illinois & Missouri
www.deltadental.comDelta Dental’s PPO provides an extensive network of dentists within the region and nationally (over 141,000 dentists participate in their PPO nationally). Their PPO option combines freedom of choice with cost savings incentives. Network dentists agree to reduced fees, lowering out-of-pocket costs for enrollees and claims costs for employers.
Pharmacy Network Options (Regional & National)
Walgreens Health Initiatives
www.walgreenshealth.com/wagclient/consumer/index.jsp?sc_cid=mywhi_con_van
Walgreens Health Initiatives (WHI) offers a full range of PBM services, including an extensive retail network, mail service, and a specialty drug program. Nationally, millions of plan members receive comprehensive pharmacy benefit solutions- convenient prescription fulfillment, cost-savings suggestions, healthy lifestyle education,
and an experienced support team through WHI.
CVS Caremark
CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management services are designed to deliver effective and appropriate medicines with the greatest cost savings. They place a premium on convenience, offering plan participants the choice of getting their medicines at one of more than 64,000 participating local retail pharmacies or through the Caremark mail service pharmacies for home delivery of maintenance medications.
Physical Therapy/Rehab. Facilities
McLean County Orthopedics
www.mcleancountyorthopedics.com
MCO offers a wide variety of orthopedic services involving the hand wrist and elbow, shoulder, hip, knee, spine, and foot and ankle. They are also proud of their sports medicine physicians who are dedicated to the care of sports-related injuries.
Regional and National Vision Care Services
Vision Service Plan
www.vsp.com
VSP has more than 26,000 doctors in 20,000 offices across the country. Whether your employees live in the city, suburbs, or rural areas, VSP doctors are nearby- an Average of only four miles from where the Members live or work. What’s more, VSP Doctors provide both eye exams and Eyeware, making them a convenient “one-stop” means of obtaining eyecare benefits.
NBCH Products
As a long-standing member of the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), our coalition and its members are eligible to utilize various products and services of our national organization. Some of these products are listed below:
eValue8
http://www.nbch.org/index.asp?sid=25
eValue8, the nations leading evidenced-based request for information (RFI) tool, is widely used by business health coalitions, their purchasing members, and national employers to assess and manage the quality of their health care plans. As an example, the tool may provide information on how efficient the health care plan is in the management of pharmacy issues.
Bridges To Excellence
http://www.nbch.org/index.asp?bid=179
Bridges To Excellence is a nationally employer-led pay-for-performance program created to encourage improvements in care quality by recognizing and rewarding providers that deliver safe, timely, effective and efficient care to chronically ill patients. Area’s of care include optimal diabetes care, optimal vascular care, and depression.
Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program
http://www.nbch.org/index.asp?bid=181
The Leapfrog Hospital Recognition Program recognizes and rewards hospitals that demonstrate Excellence or improvement in the performance areas of patient safety, quality, and resource Utilization. The program uses the data captured in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey to evaluate Hospital performance within the standardized, national measure set, composed of quality and resource utilization measures. These measures are weighted and rolled up into an overall efficiency score which is used to determine recognition and rewards levels.
