Employees Working in Washington, DC

Health Plan. Faculty and staff working in Washington, D. C. area may enroll in one of the three PPO health care plans administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois for hospital and physician services. Walgreens Health Initiatives (WHI) administers prescription drug services for the Premier and Select PPO plans. Prime Therapeutics in partnership with Blue Cross administers the prescription drug programs for the Value PPO plan.

Premier and Select PPO Plan members may obtain prescription drugs from a network of 54,000 retail pharmacies including most national retail drugstore chains and many independent pharmacies. Individuals are not required to obtain prescriptions from a Walgreens drugstore.

Plan members receive membership cards from the applicable company.

The University pays for about three quarters toward total health care plan costs. PPO ontributions are based on an individual's University salary as of September 1, 2007 or new hire salary if hired during 2008. Out-of-pocket maximum costs will be administered during a calendar year by an individual's September 1, 2007 University annual salary or new hire salary if hired during 2008.

Dental Plan. Faculty and Staff working in Washington, D. C. area may enroll in the PPO dental plan administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. The group and section numbers are 56909 and 0100. The University contributes 55% toward dental plan total premiums.

Please access the following links for additional information:

Health
Dental
Vision

Educational Assistance and Reduced Tuition Plans. Full-time regular status employees whose customary work place is located more than 200 miles from Chicago are elgble for Educational Assistance and Reduced Tuition benefits at instititutions other than Northwestern University. Such employees are also eligible for Portable Tuition benefits.

In such cases, employees should submit the Educational Assistance and Reduced Tuition applications with a copy of the institution's billing statement and proof of successful completion at the end of the term.

Upon approval of the application, the University will issue the benefit directly to the employee. The amount of the benefit granted will not exceed the amount of the corresponding benefit applied to Northwestern University tuition.

Full time employees may also participate in the Portable Tuition plan for a dependent child taking courses at a school other than NU.