Highmark Blue Shield

Highmark Inc., doing business as Highmark Blue Shield is proud to support and provide programming that strengthens communities, whether through direct grants, through partnerships with community organizations, or through internally developed initiatives. Highmark Blue Shield, serves approximately 1.2 million members through the company’s health care benefits business and hundreds of thousands of additional individuals through the BlueCard® program. Highmark Blue Shield has significant commercial market share and strong Medicare Advantage membership [through certain of its affiliated Blue companies] as well. Through its affiliated Blue companies, all of Highmark's Medicare Advantage plans in Pennsylvania received a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services quality rating of 4.5 out of 5.0 stars. Highmark Blue Shield employs approximately 3,500 people in central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, serving as a key economic driver in the region. Highmark Blue Shield’s total economic impact throughout central Pennsylvania is more than $978 million.  Our mission is to make high-quality health care readily available, easily understandable and truly affordable in the communities we serve.

Kathleen McKenzie, VP Community Affairs 
Highmark Blue Shield
Kathleen.mckenzie@highmark.com

Yvonne Cook, President
Highmark Foundation
yvonne.cook@highmark.com