Independence Blue Cross, the Philadelphia region’s largest health insurer, said Tuesday it will offer identity protection services — at no charge to eligible members and their dependents — starting Jan. 1, 2016.
The action was part of the national Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s announcement that Blue plans across the country will make such services available to their 106 million members throughout the United States.
The move comes about five months after Anthem, a multi-state Blue Cross Blue Shield plan based in Indianapolis, disclosed its databases had been hacked— and the personal data on as many as 80 million records for current and former customers and employees has exposed. Anthem members’ medical information was not part of the data breach.
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