Pros
HMSA is a good employer for many reasons. There are positions for a variety of interests. Underwriting, claims administration/processing, liaison to the physician community, IS, IT, credit union, finance and accounting, sales, marketing, lobbying, legal, fraud and abuse, and many more. Benefits are good although they used to be better and there are many talented people to work with.
Cons
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many retirements and a tremendous amount of knowledge has walked out the door. Unfortunately, there are gaps that exist and training of new employees has not kept up with the need for an informed and fully agile employee base. There are great people to do the work but the tools needed to develop into great employees are lacking. This creates backlogs of work which can lead to crisis management rather than well thought out planning and execution.