Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is committed to our mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians. We invest both time and money in the health and wellbeing of Louisiana communities by supporting more than 200 charitable organizations through volunteer service, board participation, employee giving and focused grantmaking.
Our commitment to corporate citizenship was recognized in 2019, 2020 and 2021 by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana was honored as one of The Civic 50: the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States. In 2021, the company also earned the 2021 Volunteer Leader Award.
With our subsidiaries, HMO Louisiana and Southern National Life, we cover 1.8 million members, providing group and individual health insurance plans, life and disability insurance, group voluntary products and administrative services. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana also provides Medicare supplement and Medicare Advantage plans and is a partner in offering the Healthy Blue Medicaid managed care plan.
We operate only in Louisiana, and we’re the only Louisiana insurer that offers plans in every parish. We also provide every customer with comprehensive wellness education, programs and services to help them live healthier lives. Headquartered in Baton Rouge, we have eight regional offices to serve our customers around the state.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is dedicated to transforming the healthcare industry in Louisiana into one that delivers high-quality health outcomes for our customers, with top-notch service at more affordable costs. Our reputation for exceptional service and prompt payments, as well as the hard work of our 200+ in-house doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and dietitians, keeps both customer and provider satisfaction high.
We are consistently honored as a “Best Place to Work” and recognized for our wellness initiatives, excellence in customer service, superior digital design and content, advertising and public relations excellence and support for diversity, equity and inclusion, including employee and supplier diversity. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana was honored with the 2020 Excellence in Diversity Award by the Louisiana Society for Human Resource Management and the large business 2019 Diversity Star Award by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber.
ABOUT
CEO OR PRESIDENT: Dr. I. Steven Udvarhelyi
CURRENT EMPLOYEES: 20 in Shreveport
AVERAGE EMPLOYEE TENURE: 12+ years
WORKPLACE CULTURE: Our coworkers are our best friends and it shows in the smiles and laughter when we get together. We are family and we have fun together. Our mission and our unique position to address and improve Louisiana’s historically poor health outcomes give us purpose. Paid time off to volunteer, matching gifts and dollars for doers let us support the causes we love. We have an intense focus on work life balance and taking PTO, with flexibility to work from home. Generous benefits, a rich Wellness program, health fair, exercise classes, mindfulness training, support from EAP all make sure we stay at our best. Our strong Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program with 9 employee resource groups, help us embrace and celebrate us as we are and challenge us to drive change in our communities. Career development training/opportunities and robust internal advancement mean we are always getting better. We love coming together to share a meal, participate in a cultural event, or volunteer at the food bank or a health fair. Anyone who is around us comments on the way we smile, greet and laugh with each other. It’s about the people—the ones we work with and the ones we serve.
VITALITY: Our approximately 3100 employees, 20 of whom are based in Shreveport, are dedicated to the 1.9M Louisianians who rely on the Cross and Shield for their health insurance needs. The company’s strong balance sheet allows the company to operate efficiently on small margins passing along the lowest rates possible to our members. Blue Cross processes about $7 billion in claims for our members each year with high customer satisfaction scores as measured through the NPS surveys. About 18,000 businesses have health insurance with us. The entire State Office of Group Benefits (over 200,000 public employees and their dependents) have coverage with us. Over 35,000 federal government employees in Louisiana choose Blue. Almost every school board in the state uses Blue Cross to provide or administer their health benefits.
