Blue Cross Too Late To Provide State of Montana Benefits In 2013

By Steve Blanchard On December 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Blue Cross Blue Sheild in Montana missed the deadline for submitting a proposal for the state of Montana Health Benefits.

Blue Cross Blue Sheild has been State of Montana’s health benefits provider for the past 28 years so they are extremely disappointed that they missed the deadline.

They plan to do an investigation of who made the mistake of not getting the deal submitted in time for the state.

So who could be running the state of Montana’s health benefits worth about 4 Million and 32,000 employees? There are 3 potentials:

Employee Benefit Management Services (EBMS) of Billings
UnitedHealth of Minnetonka, Minn.
Cigna of Hartford, Conn.

It will be interesting to see who if not all three that could grab up this business and what the pricing will actually turn out to be. Will coverage and premiums be better or worse? We will find out coming 2013.