Is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Right for You?
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois is a Licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a health insurance trade association consisting of locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. With Blue Cross Blue Shield providers located everywhere in the USA and Canada, BCBS offers excellent health care insurance to one out of every four Americans. Blue Cross & Blue Shield has offered high quality and very affordable health care coverage for more than seventy years.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield offers a number of health care coverage choices and plans throughout the USA. Depending on where you live, Blue Cross and Blue Shield offers HMO (health maintenance organization), PPO (network) plans, PPO plans with an attached Health Savings Account (HSA), and Indemnity plans (non-network coverage). These plans (with appropriate changes) may be provided on either a group basis for employers and their employees or for individual and family coverage or, in some states, as both group and individual plans. For seniors, and depending on where you live, Blue Cross and Blue Shield offers a couple of plans, including national Medicare supplemental insurance (non-BCBS-network) and BCBS-in-network Medicare supplemental insurance.
Throughout the USA, various Blue Cross Blue Shield providers have introduced complementary health care services and health care information resources. These may include covered or negotiated health services such as dental, chiropractic or alternative medicine. Available health information resources include subjects such as general health care, nutrition, exercise, dietary supplements, fitness and weight loss, women's health, behavioral health, and children's health.