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EPC, Employers Preferred Choice

The network

Picked for quality, not size.

Northwestern Medicine at Tier 1, at $0 to members. The network grows around your people.

Three tiers

Three tiers. One promise.

Tier 1 is $0. Tier 2 covers anywhere Tier 1 can't. Tier 3 is your choice.

Tier 1 · Preferred

$0

Northwestern Medicine and direct contracts

No deductible, no copay, no coinsurance. Facility and physician.

Tier 2 · Participating

Standard

The Unity Network

Deductible, copays and coinsurance at a contracted rate.

Tier 3 · Non-participating

50%

Out of network, by choice

Higher deductible. The only place reference pricing applies.

Members can nominate their own doctors. We contact the office within 24 hours.

Illinois · Live

Northwestern. UChicago. Loyola.

Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will counties.

  • Tier 1

    Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Chicago

  • Tier 1

    Prentice Women's Hospital

    Chicago

  • Tier 1

    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

    Chicago

  • Tier 1

    Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage

    Winfield

  • Tier 1

    Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest

    Lake Forest

  • Tier 1

    Outpatient imaging and surgery centers

    Chicagoland

  • Tier 1

    UChicago Medicine

    Chicago South Side

  • Tier 1

    Loyola Medicine

    Western suburbs

Rosters vary by plan design and are confirmed at onboarding.

Coming next

Arizona, Texas and Florida.

Anchor systems are announced when contracts are confirmed. Want to hear first?

  • Same model as Illinois
  • One email when your state opens
  • No newsletter

Tell me when my state opens

We'll write once, when the roster is confirmed.

Step 1 of 2

Research

We didn't invent this idea.

Outside studies we lean on. Not EPC results.

Walmart Centers of Excellence (Harvard Business Review, 2019)
Large employers that sent surgeries to centers of excellence saw fewer unnecessary procedures. Full citation and link.
High-Value Physicians (UnitedHealth Group, 2019)
Full citation and link.
Walmart and Embold Health (KFF Health News, 2019)
Full citation and link.
Surgeon Scorecard (ProPublica, 2015)
Surgeon complication rates vary widely, even inside the same hospital. Full citation and link.

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