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Blue Directions Custom

The Blue Directions Custom tiers allow you to conveniently enroll and manage benefits online with additional flexibility and options.

Simple, Online Enrollment

Blue Directions offers a personalized enrollment experience, while providing you with administrative ease.

Step 1: Choose your benefit offerings
You'll pick up to four Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) health plans plus other specialty benefits, and then set your contribution amount or percentage.

Step 2: Employees access resources
Employees can access educational materials and decision support tools online.

Step 3: Employees compare benefit options
Employees compare benefits options and costs, then enroll on a secure enrollment website.

Step 4: Employees select benefits
Employee benefits selections get sent electronically to BCBSIL and specialty carriers.

Step 5: ID cards mailed
ID Cards will be mailed directly to your employees once enrollment information is completed on the carrier side.

Secure, Online Enrollment

Our enrollment website provides employees with an engaging benefits shopping experience and eliminates your paperwork. Explore the Blue Directions enrollment experience:

Manager Access Point (MAP) Employer Dashboard

Blue Directions gives you one secure website for handling all benefits management tasks. The administrator dashboard lets you:

  • Manage employee eligibility
  • Oversee all benefits plans like medical, dental and vision
  • Track payroll deductions
  • Get on-demand reporting at the click of a button
  • Make staff updates

See how MAP makes benefits management easy and painless: 

Enrollment Support

Using our educational and decision support tools before - and during enrollment - can help any employee make informed benefits decisions:

Online Decision Support
A quick survey can offer employees a snapshot of their health, budget and family needs. It will also suggest health insurance plans based on their answers.

Helpful Enrollment Tools
Calculators, videos and educational content are available on the enrollment website to help employees make smart benefits decisions.

One Experience, Many Options

Health Plan Variety 

You have the flexibility to create and offer a custom health care benefits package.

BCBSIL has partnered with Empyrean Benefit Solutions to offer our clients a robust combination of flexible, reliable health care coverage and industry-leading benefits technology.

As a BCBSIL client, you are eligible for a discount off of Empyrean's technology fee. Visit Empyrean's website to learn more about their benefit administration solutions.

Specialty Benefits Available

Complete your benefits package by adding ancillary benefits from the carriers of your choosing.

Coverages can include:

  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Long-Term Disability
  • Supplemental Medical (Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity)

Flexible Options

With Blue Directions Custom, clients have the option to include additional features to ease their benefits management experience. These choices include:

  • HRIS and Payroll Integration
  • ACA Data Reporting

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