Summer is here! The warm weather and long days offer us extended opportunities to be outside and active. It can also create opportunities for injury or illness that may happen after hours.
Continue reading “The Doctor’s Note: Should I go to the emergency room?”
As we continue to celebrate 75 years in business, we recognize that it is our members – the Kansas residents and communities – who worked together to help build our company into what it is today.
This is particularly true for Elsie Cottrell, who has been a member of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas for all 75 years. Earlier this year, she invited us to her home in Meade, where she shared memories of the day in 1942 when Blue Cross came to town to sign people up for health insurance. Continue reading “A real comfort with Elsie Cottrell”
Kansas workers provide services and make things that improve life in our communities. They build equipment for safer neighborhoods. They inspire a deeper interest in learning, and create products for healthy fun with friends and neighbors.
Dynamic Discs and Exploration Place are two businesses featured in our latest commercial. Recently, they shared with us how the Emporia and Wichita communities played an important part in their establishments. Continue reading “Improving Kansas communities – Dynamics Discs & Exploration Place”
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas recognizes and appreciates the important roles nurses have in our everyday lives. You may be surprised to learn that we employ more than 40 nurses and that some of them work directly with our members. Continue reading “Nurses bridge the gap between care and coordination”
We know that many of our members have questions about the current state of health care reform in our country. While the future is still uncertain, we want you to know that we are working with our elected federal officials, as well as our state lawmakers and regulators, to ensure that Kansans have access to high-quality health care at a price they can afford. We invited BCBSKS Director of Government Relations Sunee Mickle to provide an update on how things are progressing in Washington, D.C. Continue reading “{Guest blog} Health care reform – where do we go from here?”
Every few years, a milestone birthday or anniversary comes along that gives one pause to reflect on the past, celebrate the good times, and look ahead to the future. As a company, we have a special opportunity to do that during 2017 as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas marks 75 years in business. We are a locally owned and operated company that has been part of the Kansas landscape since 1942. Continue reading “75 years of commitment, compassion and community | A message from BCBSKS president/CEO Andy Corbin”
Emergency care can save your life if you’re seriously sick or injured. But for less severe complaints, you may get faster and less expensive treatment elsewhere. Instead, call your primary care doctor or head to an urgent care center. Use the chart below as a guide for when you’re not sure where to go.
Although you’re unlikely to confuse us with your neighborhood drugstore, you may be surprised to know we do have pharmacists on staff here at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS). Our pharmacists are crucial to helping our company make decisions about prescription drugs, pharmacies and maintaining professional relationships with providers. Continue reading “Meet our pharmacists!”
