Is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Right for You?
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is a separate Licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a health insurance trade association made up of locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. With Blue Cross Blue Shield providers found throughout the USA, BCBS offers excellent health insurance coverage to one out of every four Americans. Blue Cross & Blue Shield has provided quality and very affordable health care benefits for more than seventy years.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield provides a number of health care coverage plans throughout the USA. Depending on where you live, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) offers Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plans, network provider (PPO) plans, PPO plans with an attached Health Savings Account (HSA), and Indemnity plans (non-network coverage). These plans (with appropriate changes) may be available on either a group basis for employers and their employees or as individual or family packages or, in some states, as both group and individual plans. For seniors, and depending on where you live, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) offers a couple of plans, including nationwide Medicare supplemental insurance (non-BCBS-network) and BCBS-in-network Medicare supplemental insurance.
Throughout the USA, many BCBS providers have introduced complementary health benefit services and health care information resources. These may include covered or negotiated discount health services such as dental, chiropractic or alternative medicine. Available health information resources may include topics such as general health care, nutrition, exercise, dietary supplements, parenting, weight loss, women's health, behavioral health, and children's health.