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Small Business Health Insurance In California
Finding the right small business health insurance and providing cost-saving coverage for your California employees has never been more important. Here at Anthem, we’re ready to help you find reliable, affordable coverage that makes sense for your budget and your employees.
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Group Health Plans Tailored To Small Businesses
At Anthem, we are committed to transforming health outcomes through:
Quality healthcare access: Through our investments in people, tools, and technology, we are expanding avenues to quality healthcare, ensuring every employee has the support they need.
Whole-health outcomes: Addressing physical, behavioral, and social factors to deliver comprehensive care tailored to your employees’ unique needs.
Community strength: Partnering with you to strengthen community well-being, enhancing both local engagement and broader health improvements.
Digital innovation: Streamlining administration with our advanced digital platforms, making healthcare management both efficient and effective.
Our small business portfolio includes a variety of PPO, HMO, POS and high deductible health plans along with a wide choice of networks.
Why Choose Anthem Small Business
Health Insurance
We offer a broad range of benefit and cost-share options to meet different situations and budgets. Whether HMO, PPO, POS, or other plan types, we have something that will fit your unique business needs.
Anthem features one of the broadest networks in the nation. As a Blue Cross Blue Shield card holder, your employees will have access to a network that includes 95% of doctors and 96% of hospitals in the U.S. One in three Americans carries a BCBS card — over 106 million members. (bcbs.com).
You’ll save valuable time managing your team’s benefits with EmployerAccess, our secure online tool. It’s a quick and easy way to review your account, enroll members, check eligibility, and order ID cards — all in one spot.
Your employees will benefit from 24/7 online visits with board-certified doctors;1 access to quality providers within 10 miles of their home; and Sydney Health,2 our mobile app that lets employees access their health plan anytime, anywhere.
Small Business Health Plans
Our small business health insurance portfolio includes a wide variety of plan options, along with broad network coverage for groups with 2 to 100 employees. We connect and coordinate all our benefits to work together and enhance all aspects of care. This helps lower your overall costs and makes benefit management easier, all while delivering more value to your employees.
Medical And Pharmacy Coverage
All of our small business medical insurance plans feature integrated pharmacy coverage. Plans are designed to work seamlessly together so physicians and medical professionals can deliver the right care, in the right setting, at the right time.
Include in-network preventive care coverage at 100% in compliance with the Affordable Care Act.
Powered by our custom-built pharmacy benefits manager, CarelonRx.
Additional Coverage
We offer additional insurance plans that you can combine with medical plans to offer a full range of coverage for your employees. When you combine Anthem plans, you automatically receive Whole Health Connection®. It integrates medical, pharmacy, and other coverage to make managing all aspects of care simpler, smarter, and more cost-effective. By bundling medical with our other coverage options, you may also save up to 5%, depending on eligibility.
Competitive plans with 100% in-network coverage for preventive services.
Access to one of the largest vision networks in the nation, including over 40,000 eye doctors at more than 30,000 locations. (NetMinder data, November 2021.)
Anthem partners with The Standard to offer life plans that your employees and their families can take advantage of today.
Anthem offers short and long term disability plans from our partner The Standard.
Learn more about short term disability
Whole Health Options
Because health is more than an annual checkup, we support whole-person care, including:
Integrated Wellbeing Solutions programs to provide holistic care for a healthier, more productive workforce.
Products and strategies for promoting behavioral health at work and beyond.
Assist with work and life challenges ranging from stress to finding care for loved ones to dealing with legal issues – at no added cost to your employees.
Did You Know?
You can buy health insurance coverage at any time; there is no special enrollment period for health insurance for small businesses.
To learn more about which Small Business plans may be right for you, or to get a quote, please reach out to your Agent or Broker.
Did You Know?
You can buy health insurance coverage at any time; there is no special enrollment period for health insurance for small businesses.
To learn more about which Small Business plans may be right for you, or to get a quote, please reach out to your Agent or Broker.
The Confidence Of Community
Our associates live and work in the same places you do. We’re all members of the communities we serve and partners in helping those communities thrive.
The Confidence Of Community
Our associates live and work in the same places you do. We’re all members of the communities we serve and partners in helping those communities thrive.
In California, Anthem is proud to have 9.3 million members, 7,157 associates and 87 years in the local market.
In 2023 we supported California communities and local nonprofits by donating:
$8.5 million in open community giving activity.
$1.4 million generated through associate donations and volunteer hours.
17,303 employee volunteer hours through Anthem’s Dollars for Doers.
1 Member cost share for primary care physician office visit may apply.
2 Sydney Health is offered through an arrangement with CareMarket, Inc., a separate company offering mobile application services on behalf of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield ©2021-2022.
Life and disability products underwritten by The Standard a separate company that does not offer Blue branded products and services. The Standard is a marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. and subsidiaries. Insurance products are offered by Standard Insurance Company of 1100 SW Sixth Avenue of Portland, Oregon, in all states except New York, where insurance products are offered by The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York of 360 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 210, White Plains, New York. Product features and availability vary by state and company, and are solely the responsibility of each subsidiary. Each company is solely responsible for its own financial condition. Standard Insurance Company is licensed to solicit insurance business in all states except New York. The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York is licensed to solicit insurance business in only the state of New York.