{"id":3385,"date":"2014-06-23T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:58:51","slug":"benefits-tip-hendrick-medical-center-blue-cross-blue-shield-bcbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2014\/06\/23\/benefits-tip-hendrick-medical-center-blue-cross-blue-shield-bcbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits Tip &#8211; Hendrick Medical Center &amp; Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, Hendrick &amp; BCBS are still in negotiations regarding their contract. ACU remains optimistic that an agreement will be made. However, we believe it is time for you to engage a bit more in the educational materials that are available from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hendrickhealth.org\/Main\/bcbs-information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcbstx.com\/hendrick\/\" target=\"_blank\">BCBS<\/a>. Doing so will allow you to begin to consider what, if any, steps you may need to take should Hendrick become out of network for a period of time. We are currently compiling a list of FAQ&#8217;s for ACU should this occur. In the meantime, feel free to send your question to Elsa Dunson at <a href=\"mailto:EDunson@holmesmurphy.com\" target=\"_blank\">EDunson@holmesmurphy.com<\/a> or ext. 3359 or Leah Shepherd at <a href=\"mailto:leah.shepherd@acu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">leah.shepherd@acu.edu<\/a> or ext. 2172.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, Hendrick &amp; BCBS are still in negotiations regarding their contract. ACU remains optimistic that an agreement will be made. However, we believe it is time for you to engage a bit more in the educational materials that are available from both Hendrick and BCBS. Doing so will allow you to begin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}