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2025
BlueCHiP for Medicare
Preferred

Monthly premium

$227.00
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The Preferred (HMO-POS) plan offers one of our widest ranges of medical benefits, copays, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximum, plus out-of-network coverage.

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Medical

  • $0 copay for PCP visits
  • $0 labs/X-rays
  • $25 specialist visits
  • Out-of-network coverage

Prescription Drugs

  • $0 drug deductible
  • $3 Tier 1 and $6 Tier 2 prescription copays
  • Discounted copays for a 100-day supply with Preferred Mail Order

Dental/Hearing/Vision 

  • $0 preventive and comprehensive dental
  • $1,500/year dental benefit maximum
  • $0 for routine hearing and vision screenings
  • 2 hearing aids, starting at $0, annually
  • Get $280/year for dental and hearing (Flexible Benefit Card)
  • Get $200/year for eyewear

Extras

  • $0 gym and home fitness benefit
  • Get $100/quarter over-the-counter (OTC) benefit for everyday health items (Flexible Benefit Card)
  • Get $350 wig allowance

What's covered

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Coverage
Copays & Details
Outpatient Care and Services1,2

Ambulance

$175 copay per trip

Dental Services

Medicare-covered
In-network: 20% of the cost
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Preventive: $0
Comprehensive: $0

$1,500 limit on all covered dental services for preventive and comprehensive dental services. All preventive and comprehensive services must be provided by an in-network plan-contracted dentist.

Diabetes Supplies and Services

In-network: $0
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

You must use OneTouch plan-designated monitors and test strips.

Diagnostic Tests, Lab and Radiology Services, and X-rays

In-network
$0 for lab services
$0 for diagnostic tests and X-rays
$175 for high-tech radiology services (for example, MRIs)

Out-of-network
20% of the cost

Emergency Care

$125 copay per visit

If you are admitted to the hospital within 24 hours, you do not have to pay your share of the cost for emergency care.

Outpatient Hospital/Surgery

In-network
Up to $150 copay  per visit for ambulatory surgical center based services.  
Up to $200 copay  per visit for hospital based services.

Out-of-network
20% of the cost

Primary Care Provider Visit

In-network
$0 PCP copay per visit

Out-of-network
20% of the cost

Specialist Visit

In-network: $25 copay per visit
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Referral is required for specialist visits.

Vision Visit

Routine vision
In-network: $0
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Non-routine vision
In-network: $25 copay per visit
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Vision hardware
Our plan offers a $200/year allowance for vision hardware.

Hearing Services

Routine hearing
In-network: $0
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Non-routine hearing
In-network: $25 copay per visit
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Hearing aids
$0-$1,475 copay per hearing aid (2 aids every year)

Preventive Care

In-network: $0
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Inpatient Care1,2

Inpatient Hospital Care

In-network: $225 copay per day for days 1-5, $0 Days 6+
Out-of-network: 20% of the cost

Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)

In-network
$0 copay per day for days 1-20
$214 copay per day for days 21-45
$0 copay per day for days 46-100

Out-of-network
20% of the cost

Our plan covers up to 100 days in a SNF

 
Standard
Prescription Deductible

No deductible

Initial Coverage (up to 30-day supply)3

Tier 1 (Preferred Generic)

$3 copay

Tier 2 (Non-preferred Generic)

$6 copay

Tier 3 (Preferred Brand)

$47 copay

Tier 4 (Non-preferred Drug)

$100 copay

Tier 5 (Specialty Tier)

33% of the cost

Mail Order (100-day Supply)

$0 copay for Tiers 1 and 2

Insulins (30-day Supply)

$35

1 The out-of-pocket maximum includes only Medicare-covered services. This is the most a member would pay for these services during a calendar year. You must receive all routine care from plan providers unless you select the BlueCHiP for Medicare Value (HMO-POS), BlueCHiP for Medicare Enhanced (HMO-POS), BlueCHiP for Medicare Extra (HMO-POS), BlueCHiP for Medicare Preferred (HMO-POS), or the BlueCHiP for Medicare Access (HMO-POS) plan. If you select the BlueCHiP for Medicare Value, BlueCHiP for Medicare Enhanced (HMO-POS), BlueCHiP for Medicare Extra, BlueCHiP for Medicare Preferred, or the BlueCHiP for Medicare Access (HMO-POS) plan, with the exception of emergency or urgent care, ambulance, or dialysis services, it may cost more to get care from out-of-network providers.

2 A preauthorization may be required. Review may include but is not limited to pre-authorization and/or continued treatment by the plan and/or plan designee. Contact plan for details.

3 You must use network pharmacies to access your prescription drug benefit, except under non-routine circumstances, quantity limitations and restrictions may apply. Please refer to the Evidence of Coverage for prescription drug cost share information in a long-term care setting, mail order, and extended day retail supplies as well as detailed benefit information concerning the Initial Coverage stage and the Catastrophic level stage.