I am pleased to introduce the HR Corner in the first edition of the quarterly employee newsletter. This newsletter is another way to provide excellent customer service to all of our valued employees. Our goal for the HR portion of the newsletter is to provide general information of interest. We will feature healthful tips for the season and answer those frequently asked questions we receive every day.
The Department of Human Resources handles employment, employee records, benefits, risk management, payroll, and more. We are excited for you to learn more about our services and how we can support you.
Lisa Smith, Vice President of Human Resources
Benefits:
With the recent plan change to our medical benefits, we thought it might be useful to share some tips on how to help navigate the new plan. Sometimes, the cost of health care can be more than what you expect when you need a procedure, service, or lab work. If you know what your cost will be ahead of time, you can plan ahead.
With the recent plan change to our medical benefits, we thought it might be useful to share some tips on how to help navigate the new plan. Sometimes, the cost of health care can be more than what you expect when you need a procedure, service, or lab work. If you know what your cost will be ahead of time, you can plan ahead.
Usines Anthem’s Estimate Your Cost tool, you can find out costs and compare facilities and providers based on cost and quality ratings for procedures — before you get them. It puts you in control of where and how you spend your health care dollars.
Here are the steps:
- Log into Anthem.com
- Choose “Estimate Your Costs”
- Enter the location you want, how far you want to travel, the procedure needed, then choose search your costs estimates.
- Agree to the terms of use and choose Submit
- Take a look at the list of providers in network and the estimated costs for the procedure.
Pharmacy Costs:
With prescription costs steadily rising, there is another way to help control your costs. Consider obtaining coupons from www.goodrx.com and even compare costs between different pharmacies near you. A number of employees have informed us that this service has, in some cases, cut their prescription costs in half – worth a look!