Our subsidiaries and affiliates provide services and solutions that further empower whole person health.
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Expanding Access to Care
We enable access to quality care for members no matter how they get their health insurance — through employers, the individual and family market, Medicare or Medicaid — and work to create equitable health outcomes for all.
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Improving Affordability of Care
Health care costs now account for more than 17% of the U.S. economy. Collaborating with doctors, hospitals and other providers, we connect our members to high-value care, focusing on quality and outcomes.
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Empowering Whole Person Health
With compassion and innovation, we help employers and members meet their evolving health care needs — physical health, mental health and pharmacy services.
Our Company
Driving change by focusing on what matters most
With nearly a century of experience offering health care peace of mind, HCSC now has more than 28,000 employees serving more than 23 million people nationwide. Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Our Communities
Make an impact. Make a change. Make a difference.
194K+
immunizations and other preventive health services provided through our mobile health programs in 2023
1.8M
people impacted through our major grant program in 2023
123K+
hours volunteered by employees in 2023
Our Portfolio of Companies
Our Legacy
Pioneering affordable access to health care
HCSC was incorporated and first started offering health care peace of mind in 1936. The company was founded by visionaries who sought to offer solutions for affordable access to health care using the Blue Cross and Blue Shield models.
The Blue Cross Plan for hospital services and the Blue Shield Plan for physician services operated separately until 1975 when they were merged as Health Care Service Corporation.
By 1982, all the smaller Blue Cross Plans in Illinois were also merged with the Chicago-based Plan, and the company operated as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas joins HCSC.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico joins HCSC.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma joins HCSC.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana joins HCSC.
