OU Health participates in the Quest Lab Card Select program. By using Quest Diagnostics Lab Card Select program for your lab tests ordered by your doctor, you reduce your copay cost from $25 to $5. A $20 savings to you! The labcard.com website does not list OU Health benefits. To review the Plan’s Coverage Summary,… Continue reading Quest Lab Card Select
Costly CAT Scans, MRIs or PET Scans require you to pay a co-pay of $50 if performed at a hospital, or $25 from a freestanding radiology facility. You can reduce your co-pay to zero! Here’s how: Have the prescribing physician call HealthCare Strategies (HCS) at 1 (800) 764-3433 (on your ID card) and advise which test… Continue reading Specialty Radiology
The Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield offers their “Live Health On-Line” program to embers enrolled in the OU Health Plan! What is it Easy, fast doctor visits from the comfort of your home, using your computer ormobile device, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! How do i use it ? Sign up… Continue reading TeleMed
The OU Health Plan has arranged with CVS Caremark to offer a Zero Co-Pay Seasonal Flu Vaccine to members of the Plan. As long as the OU Health Plan is primary for you and your dependents then you are eligible to receive the Flu Vaccine at zero cost. Download PDF OU Health Flu Vaccine 2019
Orange Ulster SD Newsletter STP
Inter-Plan Arrangements Model Simplified Member Benefit Booklet Disclosure LanguageHMO/PPO/POS/EPO/Traditional Out-of-Area ServicesOverviewWe have a variety of relationships with other Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield Licensees. Generally, these relationships are called “Inter-Plan Arrangements.” These Inter-Plan Arrangements work based on rules and procedures issued by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (“Association”). Whenever you access healthcare services outside… Continue reading This is a Blue Cross Blue Shield required communication
July 1, 2016 Plan changes announced by OUSDHP Directors The Orange Ulster School Districts Health Plan’s Board of Directors is announcing benefit changes to the OU Health Plan, for 2016. Unfortunately, due to the additional costs of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), such as ACA taxes, fees and mandated benefits that the Plan must provide… Continue reading OU Health Announces Plan Changes Effective July 1, 2016
I am writing to provide an update on the incident involving a number of OU Health Plan members. As you may know, Envision Rx discovered the issue on October 5, 2015 upon receiving notice from our office that some Plan members reported receiving letters containing other member’s prescription drug information. Upon our notifying Envision Rx,… Continue reading Envision Rx HIPAA breach update
This is the latest from Anthem Health regarding the data breach of their system: Last week, we made you aware that Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external, cyber attack. Since that time, we have been working around the clock continuing their assistance in the FBI investigation; analyzing the data to understand the impact; responding to… Continue reading Anthem Data Breach – Credit Monitoring Services Available
As you may be aware of by now, Anthem Health, the parent company of Empire BC/BS was the target of cyber attack that exposed a variety of information regarding Private Health Information (PHI) to hackers. Due to the working relationship that the Plan has with Empire, we feel that our member’s PHI exposure is very… Continue reading Anthem Data Breach