Articles from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Georgia

As small businesses across Georgia face rising healthcare costs, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is delivering solutions that help employers offer competitive benefits, improve health outcomes, and keep costs clearer and more predictable.

Emory Healthcare and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield will continue their health care collaboration through 2028 providing access to quality care for the more than 140,000 members the systems serve. As the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, Emory Healthcare is dedicated to innovating medicine, teaching the caregivers of the future, and providing high-quality health care to patients and their families.

In response to the recent shooting at Apalachee High School, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Carelon Behavioral Health are extending access to behavioral health support for all Georgians, regardless of whether they are Anthem members. These services are a free, supplementary offering to other statewide resources like 988.

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Georgia have extended a new two-year agreement with the health system’s facilities – including all Northeast Georgia Medical Center hospitals, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group practices, Urgent Care locations, Georgia Heart Institute locations, Laurelwood, long-term care facilities and other outpatient facilities – in Anthem’s network guaranteeing continued access for Anthem members with employer-based health plans.

National nonprofit Heart of America and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, in partnership with iHeartMedia, announced today an effort aimed at serving under-resourced communities in Atlanta by addressing hunger and food insecurity in the College Park community. As part of Heart of America’s mission to transform educational spaces into modern learning environments, they will lead the design and construction of a custom food pantry at College Park Elementary School, which will help increase access to fresh and shelf-stable meals for College Park students and their families.

While people in America have shared that the pandemic and other stressors like social injustice, elections, and the economy negatively impacted their mental health in 2020, there wasn’t a corresponding increase in people seeking mental health treatment, according to the inaugural State of the Nation’s Mental Health report, commissioned by Anthem, Inc., parent company to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Georgia.