Anthem Blue Cross, formerly known as Blue Cross of California, was founded in 1937. It is a health insurance company offering a variety of health care services to Californian residents. Anthem Blue Cross has grown rapidly over the years and today Anthem Blue Cross and its affiliates boast of more than 6.80 million members.

The company has an enviable track record for innovation, and continues to offer several progressive products and services to improve the health and well-being of all Californians. It needs to be stated that Wellpoint Health Networks, a subsidiary of Anthem Blue Cross, is one of the largest publicly traded insurance companies in the United States.

Anthem Blue Cross offers
Anthem Blue Cross offers a significant number of health plans including Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO), Point of Service (POS) arrangements, Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), and Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPO), Health Savings Account (HSA) compatible plans for individuals, small groups, large groups, Medi-Cal enrollees, and seniors. It is constantly changes and enhances its plans to make them affordable while maintaining quality health care.

Anthem Blue Cross also offers dental, life, vision, long term care, and senior plans. Employers, business enterprises and individuals benefit from the combination of all of these products from a single company - as all products are combined onto one bill. This is a huge convenience factor for group insurance offered by business houses. In addition, the integrated provider networks of Anthem Blue Cross take a comprehensive approach to controlling costs and managing the total health status of patients.

In an innovative effort to provide excellent customer service, Anthem Blue Cross has organized by customer segment (e.g., individual, small group, large group, seniors, etc.) rather than by product type (HMO, PPO, etc.) This well-conceived arrangement allows the company to offer a large selection of Blue Cross insurance products. In addition to providing best healthcare to consumers, the company strives to develop a good rapport with doctors, hospitals and other professionals in the health care field.

This double-edged focus on customer service and medical provider partnerships, allows the company to offer low cost health insurance to California business houses, employers and individuals. It can therefore be said, without fear of contradiction, that Anthem Blue Cross has become a trusted partner with physicians, health care institutions, policy holders and health care professionals throughout the state.

Facts of Anthem Blue Cross
The fact also remains that Anthem Blue Cross has extensive technical, financial and professional expertise to offer access to affordable health care services to employees of business enterprises. Many members of group insurance schemes are immensely benefited by the health care information the company regularly provides.

Anthem Blue Cross of California's Small Group Division provides health coverage to more than 1.6 million employees working in small business enterprises. Anthem's Large Group Division serves employers with 51 to 500,000 employees and currently provides health insurance coverage to more than 3.8 million people.

Anthem Blue Cross has a very large PPO provider network and their plans are very competitively priced. So, you should be able to find the doctors you want to visit in the Blue Cross PPO network. The company has introduced the Right Plan 40 with and without prescription drugs. The plan has been very popular because of low premiums with no deductibles