{"id":4794,"date":"2019-07-18T17:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:27:59","slug":"group-insurance-commission-gic-benefit-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/group-insurance-commission-gic-benefit-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Insurance Commission (GIC) Benefit Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Group Insurance Commission (GIC) plan year began July 1, 2019, and you will see the following changes with copays:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Specialist copay \u2013 only two tiers <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tier 1 ($30) &#8211; applies to specialists who are <strong><em>NOT<\/em><\/strong> affiliated with an Academic Medical Center*<\/li>\n<li>Tier 2 ($60) \u2013 applies to specialists who <strong><em>ARE<\/em><\/strong> affiliated with an Academic Medical Center*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\n*A teaching or university-based hospital and a medical school<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Ambulatory Surgery Center (GI and Eye procedures only)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$250 in a hospital setting<\/li>\n<li>$150 for freestanding facilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, at the time of appointment, please ask to see our member\u2019s ID card.\u00a0 If you have any questions, please call Provider Relations at (800) 842-4464, ext. 5000, or send an email to <a href=\"mailto:providerrelations@hne.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">providerrelations@hne.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Group Insurance Commission (GIC) plan year began July 1, 2019, and you will see the following changes with copays: Specialist copay \u2013 only two tiers Tier 1 ($30) &#8211; applies to specialists who are NOT affiliated with an Academic Medical Center* Tier 2 ($60) \u2013 applies to specialists who ARE affiliated with an Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GIC-updated-e1563470826942.jpg?fit=800%2C283","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}