51+ Portfolio Expanded for January 2010 Effective Dates

Oct 11, 2010

Expanded large group portfolio offers more choices

Anthem is pleased to tell you that some exciting new health plans for businesses with 51 or more employees are headed your way. These new plans give your clients and their employees even more choice and flexibility. Plans go into effect on January 1, 2011.

What's new
Pick-a-Plan; Pick-a-Network - An innovative way to offer HMO coverage to your clients
Anthem's HMO portfolio* can be matched up with your choice of either the

Traditional HMO provider network
High-performance Select HMO network or
New Select Plus HMO network

The Select Plus HMO network offers access to more providers than the Select HMO network at a lower cost than the traditional HMO.

A choice of three HMO networks enables employers to offer their employees the same wide-ranging benefits but with different levels of cost savings. Employers can stay with their favorite Anthem HMO plan while moving to another HMO network. With Pick-a-Plan; Pick-a-Network it's that easy.

The latest additions to our 2011 portfolio

Three new Classic HMO plans - that now complete the HMO Classic portfolio
New Value Deductible HMO plan - that offers a cost-saving alternative to our traditional HMO plans
Four new Advantage HMO plans - that are now available for pooled business
Two new Embedded HSA plans - that enable individuals on a family plans to receive benefits for covered services once the individual's deductible is met
New HRA plans - that provide a choice to rollover one times or two times the amount that employees get each year when they start with the plan
New Rx plans - that give clients more pharmacy options for pooled and non-pooled HMO and PPO medical plans
New Premier PPO plan - that rounds out our Premier portfolio
Three new Classic PPO plans - that provide more ways to get affordable coverage
Two new Solution PPO plans - that fill a portfolio gap

Attached are benefit grids (PPO, CDHP, Rx, HMO) that show Anthem plans and a sales slick of the highlights. Anthem has also renamed some of the health plans. Attached is a crosswalk flyer Quick Reference Guide showing you the new names.

* Excludes Advantage HMO and POS plans.

For more information contact your Large Group Sales Assistant - 888.722.3373.