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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas Insurance Provider Information
A resource for current employees of the City of Horton, Kansas, for determining their coverage, signing up for online service, making changes to health insurance, such as application for or transfer of City of Horton group coverage.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas ("BCBS")
is the insurance provider for employees of the City of Horton.
While not all forms and information is available on hortonkansas.net,
we have made strides to make the most requested information available
on our website for the ease of our employees. If you are unable
to locate what you are looking for here, please contact our insurance
group administrator, Candy Schmitt, the Horton City Clerk; or you may
visit BCBS's website
for more information.
Information on this site has been provided as a resource for City of Horton employees seeking to:
- apply for a new ID card;
- change their listed address with BCBC;
- change their primary care physician;
- apply for a summary claims processed for an
employee;
- apply for or transfer group coverage under the City of Horton;
- apply for continuation of coverage benefits under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 ("COBRA");
- apply for continuation of coverage benefits under COBRA
for a spouse;
- apply for coverage for a child not yours by birth or
adoption; and/or
- apply for for coverage of a handicapped dependent child.
Special Notice to Employees on Pre-Existing Conditions.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
("HIPPA"), guarantees, among other things, that workers covered under
virtually any prior health insurance plan can carry forward and receive
credit for time served udner the previous carrier to the new company's
plan. The credit of such time will be used toward the
satisfaction of any pre-existing conditions waiting period, which would
otherwise be required under the new insurance program as long as the
gap in coverage is not longer than 62-days. Gaps in coverage are
not considered creditable coverage. Conditions related to
pregnancy, however, are not subject to a pre-existing conditions
waiting period. A waiting period cannot be applied to a newborn
or adopted child as long as the dependent child is added to the
employee's coverage within 63-days of the birth or adoption.
Pre-Existing Conditions are injuries or illness that are evident before the effective date of the contract for coverage. Many health plans do not cover pre-existing conditions or they have a waiting periods before the member can receive benefits for them. For example, you hurt your knee playing football a couple years ago and had to have surgery. When you sign up for a new health plan, you'll have to list your knee injury as a pre-existing condition.
