Articles from Anthem Blue Cross

Anthem Blue Cross and GET Creative, USA TODAY Network’s in-house branded content studio, announced the launch of a new five-part video series designed to help Americans better understand their health plan benefits, make informed care decisions and manage costs with greater confidence.

Anthem Blue Cross is pleased to announce its Commercial and Covered California (Exchange) health plans in California have been awarded full Health Equity Accreditation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) through July 28, 2028.

Anthem Blue Cross and its philanthropic arm, Anthem Blue Cross Foundation, are expanding relief efforts to include comprehensive recovery support in the wake of the Southern California fires.

For more than eight decades, Anthem Blue Cross has been deeply connected to California, placing people at the center of our work. Our enduring commitment reflects our shared health journey with Californians, and we recognize the profound impact of disasters on the well-being of our associates, members, care providers, and communities. As a lifetime trusted health partner, our family of companies is dedicated to delivering essential resources and relief, upholding our long-standing support for Californians in times of need.

Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) recently earned the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Health Equity Accreditation Plus, a recognition of Anthem’s ongoing leadership in developing solutions to enhance access to equitable, high-quality healthcare. It further underscores Anthem’s commitment to eliminating health disparities in underserved communities to improve health outcomes and reduce overall treatment costs.

Saint Agnes Medical Center (Saint Agnes) and Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) announced today a new, multi-year provider network agreement. The agreement secures long-term access to affordable health care for Saint Agnes patients covered by Anthem health plans.

Marjaree Mason Center (MMC) received a $400,000 grant from the Anthem Blue Cross Foundation to reduce pre-term birth rates among pregnant women who have experienced domestic violence. The effort engages the MMC's Maternal Health Program, which is a collaborative project between MMC, UCSF Fresno and the Fresno County Department of Public Health that aims to reduce incidents of pre-term births and improve the overall health and well-being of mothers and babies by addressing their comprehensive needs. Anthem’s grant will be used to offer prenatal care, mental health support, assistance navigating healthcare and social services, as well as education and resources to help women make informed decisions about their health and the health of their unborn babies.

Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) in California today announced its Virtual-First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans. Virtual-First plans give individuals affordable access to virtual care options, including access to a symptom checker driven by artificial intelligence, routine wellness care, and chronic condition management, along with behavioral healthcare.

Anthem Blue Cross, a leading coordinator of managed healthcare services in California, has made a new commitment that will continue to give uninsured Californians access to specialty healthcare services. Anthem has provided a new grant of $50,000 to California E-Consult Coalitions that will be distributed to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), rural health centers and tribal FQHCs in California's Central Valley, north rural and Sacramento regions, so the health centers can continue accessing e-consults with specialty providers to treat patients, regardless of whether patients have health insurance. Along with a previous grant, Anthem has invested $100,000 since 2020 to cover the cost of more than 1,000 e-consults for uninsured patients.

On the heels of the White House Conference on Hunger Nutrition, and Health, iHeartIMPACT and Anthem Blue Cross are continuing their multi-year national partnership to combat food insecurity and improve health in marginalized communities by partnering with non-profit Common Threads to provide hands-on culinary programming focused on food as medicine in under-resourced schools in Los Angeles.

A $100,000 donation from Anthem Blue Cross to The Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University has established a new scholarship fund to support education-related expenses for students with disabilities who have committed to future healthcare work, whether as direct healthcare practitioners or working in the field of health justice. This initiative is part of Anthem’s broader commitment to address California’s healthcare worker shortage and to close the gap in health disparities across the state.

Small businesses in Orange and Los Angeles counties will now have greater access to high-quality, more affordable health care thanks to Anthem Blue Cross. Anthem’s Vivity Heath Plan today announced it will be expanding its health care offerings to small businesses in both counties beginning in 2022. Vivity is Anthem’s regionally focused health plan with top-ranking non-profit health systems including Cedars-Sinai, Huntington Hospital, MemorialCare Health System, Providence, PIH Health, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and UCLA Health. Expanding Vivity as a high value offering to small businesses, those with 100 full-time employees or fewer, is part of Anthem’s continuing efforts to simplify health care by giving employers and their employees access to care that is coordinated, affordable and helps improve their overall health and wellbeing.

As a continued commitment to offer members a digital-first health care experience – where, when, and how they want it, Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) has launched an Alexa skill for Keck Medicine of USC to allow users to find a Keck Medicine doctor or facility, ask health care questions and additional actions designed to make health care simpler.

Anthem Blue Cross in California announced today expanded access to health and wellness services offered through many of its 2022 Medicare Advantage plans. Members will be able to choose from a package of nine benefits, which may include benefits such as dental, vision, and hearing flex card; healthy food; and in-home support. These services aim to address drivers of health, such as food insecurity, home safety, and social isolation.

National nonprofit Heart of America and Anthem Blue Cross, in partnership with iHeartMedia, announced today an effort aimed at serving under-resourced communities in Los Angeles by addressing hunger and food insecurity at Manual Arts High School in Vermont Square. As part of Heart of America’s mission to transform educational spaces into modern learning environments, they will lead the renovation of the Manual Arts High School teaching garden into a sustainable resource that provides healthy food and nutrition education.

While people in America have shared that the pandemic and other stressors like social injustice, elections, and the economy negatively impacted their mental health in 2020, there wasn’t a corresponding increase in people seeking mental health treatment, according to the inaugural State of the Nation’s Mental Health report, commissioned by Anthem, Inc., parent company to Anthem Blue Cross.