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UNICARE offers competitively
priced group health insurance for employers with 2 or more employees. Unicare uses the CCN PPO network in Illinois and Sagmaore PPO in Indiana. Call or write for a quote.
About UNICARE
UNICARE is a national organization dedicated to the delivery of quality health care plans
working together with its customers, brokers, providers and employers. Providing managed care and specialty health care services throughout the United States. UNICARE is the national operating unit of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. (NYSE:WLP), one of the
nation's largest publicly traded managed care companies servicing the health care needs of over 6.1 million members.
As the brand for most of the WellPoint business outside of the state of California, UNICARE
offers a comprehensive array of managed care health plans and specialty products that preserve member choice at competitive prices. UNICARE currently serves 1.9 million medical members.
UNICARE is committed to redefining the industry through a new generation of consumer-friendly
products that put individuals back in control of their health and financial future. UNICARE will focus its activities over the next three years on making this vision real.
UNICARE currently has 5,400 employees with 73 offices in 26 states.
History
WellPoint began its national expansion strategy in 1994 with the acquisition of
California-based UNICARE Financial Corp., a publicly traded company and parent of UNICARE Insurance Company, a company licensed to offer workers' compensation insurance in 33 states.
In 1995, UNICARE became the brand name for most of the WellPoint businesses operated outside
of California. WellPoint acquired the group Life and Health subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company®' in 1996, filling a strategic requirement in the group market of employers with 250
to 5,000 employees. This business now operates as a separate business unit within UNICARE called the Major Accounts business unit. The recent acquisition of the Group Health and related life business of John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance Company®", now known as UNICARE's Special Accounts business unit, services the large group market segment of employers with 5000+ employees, a market that includes 4,500
employers and approximately 22 million individuals.
Structure & Management
UNICARE has assembled a senior management team comprised of successful and creative
individuals from the commercial health insurance, specialty products firms, financial services organizations and other Fortune 500 companies.
UNICARE is structured around WellPoint's unique Market Business Unit (MBU) concept. Each MBU
is organized to serve specific customers and consists of a full-service organization with sales and service functions dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of customers in a particular segment.
The large employer group businesses acquired in the MassMutual and John Hancock acquisitions
have a national focus as a result of the multi-state needs of employers in those customer segments. Other business units, such as those focused on the individual and small employer group, key group (50-250
employees) , senior and Medicaid markets, have regional focus as a result of the localized nature of customers in these segments. Each UNICARE business unit is responsible for marketing, enrolling, underwriting and
servicing its specific customers and members.
UNICARE Products and Services
Consumers want choice of products and providers, and they want more control over their health
care decisions. Employers also want the maximum amount of cost control. UNICARE creates products that combine the attributes consumers find attractive with our cost control techniques. Extensive health care provider
networks enable UNICARE to offer a comprehensive array of products and services that reflect the company's philosophy of working together with members and providers, affordability for members and their families and
choice of health care providers. Employer groups and individual members can select from basic as well as comprehensive plans to meet their specific needs. Please note, all products may not be available in all
areas.
Principal Medical Products
UNICARE's strategy is to offer a diversified mix of traditional managed care products while
focusing on the development of new hybrid plans which take advantage of the best characteristics of traditional managed care and traditional open access models. The company will offer a continuum of managed heath
care plans which provide incentives to select more tightly managed plans. UNICARE believes that it is better able to predict and control health care costs and provide greater patient choice as members more needy of
care are provided with incentives to select more intensively managed health care plans, and members less needy of care are allowed to select plans with greater personal freedoms. Such plans are typically offered to
provide greater control of care and access in exchange for additional cost-maintenance measures.
Key Specialty Products
UNICARE also provides a broad array of specialty products, including pharmacy, dental, life,
workers' compensation, disability, behavioral health, COBRA and flexible benefits account administration. In addition, UNICARE offers managed care services for self-funded employers, including underwriting,
actuarial services, network access, medical management services and claims processing to UNICARE's diversified mix of individuals, employer groups and their employees.
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