An Important UPDATED Communication for Employer Groups
with Revolution Health Plans offered by Benefit Indemnity Corporation, administered by SISCO.

Our highest priority remains the care of our members – you and your employees. After our last message to you, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, was put in place that will change the content in the Emergency Pandemic Amendment originally announced.


The Act requires coverage for the following:
  • Testing
  • Office visits, including telehealth visits; Urgent care and emergency room visits related to the testing
  • In addition, the Act includes the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act, which expands FMLA during this time.
IMPORTANT: Because the Act does not differentiate between in-network and out-of-network providers, out-of-network providers will also be covered at 100%.
A Note to our MEC Plan Members: the Act includes all group health plans, including MEC plans. This Telemedicine feature has been temporarily added to all MEC plans and is effective starting April 1st 2020. See the links section below for more information.
Anyone who needs to obtain testing can do so without worrying about cost for these services.

IMPORTANT LINKS:

EMPLOYERS: This information is important to your employees. We will email all Plan Participants who provided an email address, but we encourage you to provide the below links to your employees as well.

  • CLICK HERE to download the Amendment for detailed language regarding the changes in benefits during these times. This information will also be available in your document library.

  • Your Benefits App is more important now than ever before! Access Your Benefits - Anywhere - Anytime - Any Device. CLICK HERE to download information on how to begin!

  • CLICK HERE to begin your COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool. If it does encourage you to see a doctor, don't forget to utilize the Telemedicine features of your plan.

  • Telemedicine is available through Teladoc on all plans, including MEC! CLICK HERE to download Teladoc's letter to clients during this outbreak.

    AND in order to be prepared... set up your account online or on the app BEFORE your first virtual care visit.


As a result of the Act, Revolution Health Plans will automatically apply a temporary Amendment for the services required.
The Amendment to allow the employer the option to provide an Extended Leave of Absence for those directly affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic is flexible, but does require a written advance commitment from, you, the Employer/Plan Sponsor. This could mean lay-offs resulting from closures, providing care for affected members and/or dependents, or other related items. This would enable an employer to keep employees on the plan while not working, for 30 days (as current LOA rules in the plan doc), 60 days or up to 90 days, without triggering a COBRA Qualifying Event. An employer must treat all employees under the provisions in the same way, and the decision to apply LOA terms of longer than 30 days, must be in writing and communicated to employees as much as any plan document (please copy us). We will rely upon an employer’s internal written policy, subject to audit of wage and tax and other requirements OR prior notice to us to apply a specific time frame greater than 30 days.

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