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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL)
 
 
Company Website:
http://bcbsil.com/
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Company Hierarchy
Parent Company(s)

 
Business Focus:
HIP: HMO
Health Insurance Plan (HIP)
Company Description:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois traces its roots to the depths of the Great Depression and a group of Chicago business leaders who witnessed how relatively minor illnesses that required a hospital stay were ruining families financially. These business leaders saw terrible hardship in their community and they took action to alleviate it. In 1936, they pooled their own savings and launched a not-for-profit company called Hospital Service Corporation to offer an affordable pre-paid hospital plan, which was a new concept at that time. The Chicago Plan, as it was called, was one the forerunners of what we know as health insurance today. The idea, of course, caught on and Hospital Service Corporation eventually became Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.

Today, we are the largest and most experienced health insurance company in the state, providing more than 6.5 million members with comprehensive and affordable health plans.

 
Company Ownership:
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, a Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company,
an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

Company Contacts:
Media Contact(s)
Robert Kieckhefer
[Senior Vice President, Public Affairs]
 
Kathleen Cangemi
[Communications Director]
 
Lauren Henderson
[Communications Consultant]
 
Bridget Houlihan
[Director of Communications]
 
Jack A. Segal
 

Company Officials:
Raymond F. McCaskey
[President and Chief Executive Officer]
 
Steve Hamman
[President]
 
Derek Robinson MD, MBA
[Vice President and Chief Medical Officer]
 
Cynthia Alston MD
[Associate Medical Director]
 
Robert Fucik M.D.
[Medical Director, Policy & Adjudication]
 
Willard Hams M.D.
[Medical Director - MCNP]
 
Elif Oker M.D.
[Medical Director]
 
Marianne Pavach
[Associate Medical Director]
 
Kim Reed
[Senior Medical Director]
 
Kenneth Richmond MD
[Medical Director, PPO & Administrative Services]
 
Jan Roberts MD
[Associate Medical Director]
 
Sydney Ross-Davis
[Former Medical Director]
 
Charles Schutz
[Medical Director]
 
Anita Stewart Medical Director
[MD, FAAP, JD, MPH]
 
Stephanie Vomvouras MD, MBA
[Medical Director]
 
Carol Wilhoit MD, MS
[Medical Director - Quality Improvement]
 
Denise Bujak
[Vice President, Finance]
 
Dennis Hooker
[VP National and Major Account Sales]
 
Hugo Tagli
[Senior Vice President - Chief Legal Officer]
 
Ray Biondo
[Chief Information Security Officer]
 
Rick Gutierrez
[Lead Information Security Specialist]
 
Donell Banyard
[Technical Specialist]
 
Tonita Cheatham
[Executive Director of Communications and Community Relations]
 
Dana Holmes
[Executive Director - Employee and Corporate Communication]
 
Gail K. Boudreaux
[Executive Vice President, External Operation]
 
Michelle Chesnut
[Executive Director, Service Delivery Operations]
 
Tiffany N. Davis Esq.
[Executive Director - Quality Improvement & Health Equity]
 
Dieter Freer
[Divisional Senior Vice President, Local and Consumer Markets]
 
Robert Kieckhefer
[Senior Vice President, Public Affairs]
 
Nilima Rajkumar
[Executive Director]
 
Brian Snell
[Divisional Senior Vice President, Illinois Group Markets]
 
Shelley Turk
[Divisional SVP of Health Care Delivery]
 
Austin Waldron
[Divisional Senior Vice President]
 
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Announces 2024 Individual and Family Plans Serving All 102 Counties
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois to Offer Medicare Advantage Plans in 61 Additional Counties in 2023
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