To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Kathleen Pecknold" <kpecknol@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: kpecknol@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Health Alliance

TO:  All Faculty and Staff

FROM:  Denise Hendricks, Assistant Vice President for Human Resources
Kathleen Pecknold, Associate Provost and Director, Academic Human Resources

RE:  Health Alliance

As many of you have heard, the state government's Department of Central 
Management Services (CMS) office has announced that, effective July 1, 
2004, it plans to eliminate Health Alliance as a health insurance provider.

If you are a Health Alliance member, your benefits will continue 
uninterrupted with Health Alliance through June 30.  

University administrators are in contact with Health Alliance and CMS 
officials to discuss the issue.  Officials with Health Alliance are 
appealing CMS's decision.  If the appeal of the CMS decision is not 
successful, all current Health Alliance participants will have an 
opportunity to select a new health insurance provider from the state-
approved list during the Benefit Choice enrollment period later this 
spring.  Full information about the options available to all employees 
will be communicated as it becomes available.  
 
As we learn additional information, we will post it in the announcements 
section of the campus website at: www.uiuc.edu.  

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

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