The Blue Options/Blue Choice Options plan continues to be a great option for groups to offer to their employees. However, one of the main concerns members have is if their hospital is in the Blue Options plan. To explore this, I tried an experiment to confirm if the hospitals in the large BCBS PPO network were all in the Blue Options plan. Using the BCBS IL provider finder:  I created a list of all hospitals within a 100 mile radius of 60173 in the large PPO network. 122 hospitals were listed. I clicked on the name of every hospital on the above list to see what networks were listed. Most showed Blue Options/Blue Choice Options as a network. For those hospitals that did not show the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network, I individually checked under the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network. All of the hospitals on this list showed the large PPO network. Every one of the hospitals on the list in item 4 showed they were Tier 2 in the Blue Options/Blue Choice Options network. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Tier 2: Participating Provider Organization Advocate Lutheran General [...]