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Insurance Carriers & Other Resources

HEALTH PLANS

HealthSelect of Texas(administered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas)

Website: HealthSelect website (See additional links and information.)
Link to Provider Finder for HealthSelect

Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 252-8039

Group Number: 38000

Caremark, HealthSelect Prescription Drug Program

Website: Caremark website
Toll-free Customer Service: (888) 886-8490

Group Number: RX1292


Community First Health Plans, Inc. (HMO)

Website: Community First Health Plans website
Link to provider directory for Community First

Toll-free Customer Service: (877) 698-7032

Group Number: 0010180000


FirstCare (HMO)

Website: FirstCare website
Link to provider directories for FirstCare

Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 884-4901

Group Number: M64790


Scott & White Health Plan (HMO)

Website: Scott & White Health Plan website
Link to ProviderLookup Online for Scott & White

Toll-free for Bryan/College Station: (800) 791-8777
Toll-free for Temple: (800) 321-7947
Toll-free for Georgetown: (800) 758-3012
Toll-free for Waco: (800) 684-7947

Group Number: 000058


DENTAL PLANS

Website: HumanaDental website
Link to provider directory for HumanDental DHMO dentists
Link to provider directory for State of Texas Dental Choice PlanSM PPO dentists

Toll-free Customer Service: (877) 377-0987 or TDD (800) 325-2025

Group Number for DHMO: 538226
Group Number for PPO: 536957


LIFE AND DISABILITY CARRIER

Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company(FDL)

Website: Fort Dearborn Life website
Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 778-2281
Fraud Hotline: (800) 462-3270


LONG-TERM CARE

Administered by John Hancock Life Insurance Company

Website: John Hancock website (*Username: ers, Password: mybenefit)
Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 400-9396

Previously administered by CNA

Website: CNA website (*password ERSCNALTC)
Toll-free Customer Service: (877) 895-6762
Important notice about long-term care enrollment: On February 1, 2007, CNA stopped enrolling new GBP participants. The new carrier for long-term care insurance is John Hancock.


STATE KIDS INSURANCE PROGRAM (SKIP)

Administered through Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)

Website: SKIP Information on ERS website
Toll-free Customer Service: (877) KIDS-NOW


TEXA$AVER PROGRAM (401(k) and 457 PLANS)

Administered by Great-West Retirement Services®

Website: Texa$aver website
Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 634-5091


TEXFLEX PROGRAM

Administered by PayFlex

Website: PayFlex website
Toll-free Customer Service: (866) 353-9839


ACCESS HR (for Texas Health and Human Services employees)

Website: Access HR website
Toll-free Customer Service: 1-888-TXHHSHR (888-894-4747)


FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS

Social Security Administration (SSA)
Website: SSA website
Toll-free Customer Service: (800) 772-1213

Medicare
Website: Medicare website
Toll-free Customer Service: 1-800-MEDICARE


RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Retired State Employees Association (RSEA)
Website: RSEA website
Relay Texas (for Hearing Impaired): (800) 735-2988
Austin Area: (512) 451-0087

Texas Public Employees Association
Website:
TPEA website
Toll-free Customer Service: (888) FOR-TPEA (367-8732)
Austin Area: (512) 476-2691

Texas State Employees Union (TSEU)
Website: TSEU website
Austin Area: (512) 448-4225
Houston Area: (713) 661-9030
Dallas/Fort Worth Area: (214) 631-7863
San Antonio Area: (210) 354-2900
West Texas Area: (806) 741-0044
Valley Area: (956) 428-0251