Is Blue Cross Blue Shield of California Right for You?
Blue Cross Blue Shield of California is a Licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a trade group consisting of stand alone, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. With Blue Cross Blue Shield local provider groups located everywhere in the USA and Canada, BCBS provides high quality health care insurance to more than 25% of all Americans. Blue Cross and Blue Shield has offered high quality and reasonable health care coverage for more than seventy (70) years.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield offers a number of insurance choices and plans throughout the United States. Depending on your state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield provides HMO (health maintenance organization), PPO (network) plans, combined PPO and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans, and Indemnity plans (non-network coverage). These plans (with regional changes) may be provided on either a group basis to employers for their employees or for individual and family coverage or, in some regions, as both group and individual plans. For seniors, and depending on your state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield offers various plans, including national Medicare supplemental insurance (non-BCBS-network) and BCBS-in-network (local) Medicare supplemental insurance.
Throughout the United States, various Blue Cross Blue Shield providers have now added complementary health care services and health care information and resources. These include covered or negotiated health services including dental, chiropractic or alternative medicine. Offered health information resources include subjects such as general health care, exercise, dietary supplements, fitness and weight loss, women's health, men's health, and children's health.