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Help With Gaps in Your Health Insurance Plan

Ancillary health insurance can be added to your medical plan to help cover any coverage gaps for illnesses or injuries, vision or dental services or hospital stays. Learn how each ancillary coverage could help you -- and your budget -- with the unexpected.

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How does ancillary health insurance coverage work?

Ancillary health insurance is coverage you can add to your medical plan to help close coverage gaps. With some ancillary coverage, you'll get cash to help keep your budget on track. Other types of ancillary coverage, like dental or vision insurance, work more like medical plan coverage.

BCBSIL's ancillary health insurance hub helps you:

  • Learn what ancillary or supplemental coverage is and what it covers
  • Compare medical plan benefits with ancillary coverage
  • Explore BCBSIL's health insurance options
  • Understand what supplemental coverage is
  • Find answers to commonly asked questions

What extra coverage can I add to my health insurance?

You can add extra health insurance coverage that helps with out-of-pocket costs when you run into unexpected health issues. This is called supplemental or ancillary insurance.

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Cobertura para el cuidado de la vista

Vision insurance offers you benefits that help cover the cost of eye appointments, contacts, glasses and in some cases, eye surgeries.

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Hospitalización

Also known as hospital cash insurance, adding hospital indemnity helps you stay afloat in emergencies. Get cash to help you with life's expenses when you're hospitalized.

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Cobertura dental

Dental insurance provides benefits that can help cover the cost of cleanings, fillings or root canals, treatment for gum disease, pulled teeth and more.

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Critical illness insurance

When you have an unexpected diagnosis like cancer, stroke or heart attack, critical illness insurance offers you cash to help you cover your day-to-day costs of living.

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Accident insurance

Accident insurance pays cash when you suffer an accident. You'll get a lump sum payout to use on medical bills, grocery costs, utility bills or whatever you need.

How can extra insurance help cover what my health care plan doesn't?

  Cobertura para el cuidado de la vistaSeguro dentalSeguro de accidentesSeguro de indemnización hospitalariaSeguro por enfermedades graves
 How does coverage work?You'll have vision plan benefits, like copays at different rates for covered services.You'll have dental plan benefits, like a deductible and copays for covered services.Get a cash payout when you have an accident.Get a cash payout when you're in the hospital.Get a cash payout when you have an unexpected diagnosis.
 What's commonly covered?Eye appointments, glasses or contacts and some eye surgeries or treatmentsCheckups, cavity fillings, cleanings, root canals, non-cosmetic oral surgery Severe burns, broken bones, dismemberments, concussionsOvernight hospital stays for surgeries or critical care, or ER visitsCancer diagnoses, strokes, heart attacks
 How much is covered?1Need a plan brochure to fill this out!Need a plan brochure to fill this out!Cash payout; N.eed a plan brochure to fill this out!Cash payout; N.eed a plan brochure to fill this out!Cash payout; N.eed a plan brochure to fill this out!
 How can I enroll?A determinarA determinarThrough employerThrough employerThrough employer

Add Extra Coverage to Your BCBSIL Plan

More information needed here about when, where and how to add these coverage options, for what audiences, etc.

 

What is supplemental insurance?

Supplemental health insurance includes accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity options. When life throws a lot at you, supplemental coverage can help you stay on top of household bills, grocery costs and all of life's expenses. BCBSIL offers all 3 supplemental health products to help with the unexpected costs of an accidental injury, critical diagnosis or hospital stay.

FAQs About Ancillary and Supplemental Coverage

1 Actual coverage and amounts depend on your coverage option.

2 Medical and Supplemental Health claim integration processes are dependent on our receipt of membership data.

Seguros ofrecidos por Dearborn Life Insurance Company, 701 E. 22nd St. Suite 300, Lombard, IL 60148. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois es el nombre comercial de Dearborn Life Insurance Company, licenciataria independiente de Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.