For Immediate Release
June 18, 2010
Geisinger Health Plan selected as HMO for PEBTF
DANVILLE, PA –Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) was selected by the Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund (PEBTF) to provide a health plan option to current and retired state employees in an 18 counties service area in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The counties include: Bradford, Carbon, Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Wayne and Wyoming.
“We are happy to be selected by PEBTF to offer our HMO to state employees and retirees,” said Joseph Haddock, Geisinger Health Plan’s vice president of sales. “Geisinger Health Plan will bring the same quality, value and innovation to PEBTF that we have been nationally recognized for.”
An open enrollment period will be held in October for employees and retirees. Additional information on their plan choices will be sent at that time.
The Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund, established in 1988, administers health care benefits to approximately 80,000 eligible Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees. The PEBTF is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of both Commonwealth and Union representatives. It also administers health care benefits, on behalf of the commonwealth, to approximately 20,000 non-Medicare eligible retirees and 42,000 Medicare eligible retirees and their dependents.
Geisinger Health Plan, begun in 1985, is headquartered in Danville, PA and is one of the nation's largest rural HMOs. GHP is currently the top-rated plan in Pennsylvania and #6 in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) America's Best Health Insurance Plans 2009-10*. The plan serves more than 220,000 members in 42 counties. Coverage is available for businesses of all sizes, individuals and families, and Medicare beneficiaries. As part of the Geisinger Health System, GHP has been recognized nationally as a model for health care reform with documented success in innovative programs such as the patient-centered medical home. For more information, please visit www.thehealthplan.com.
*America’s Best Health Insurance Plans is a registered trademark of U.S. News & World Report.
For more information, please contact
Amy Bowen, Public Relations Coordinator, (570) 271-8135
