Request CHIP/adultBasic Materials for your Location

Highmark Blue Shield helps to ensure that all Pennsylvania children and adults have access to affordable quality health care coverage. It is through partnerships that more than 310,600 children and 54,000 adults have received health care coverage through CHIP and adultBasic over the past 20 years.

Updated brochures and applications are now available for the CHIP and adultBasic programs. These programs reach those families who are without health insurance because their income is too high for Medical Assistance or who do not have private insurance. Many families are not aware of their potential eligibility for enrollment in CHIP or adultBasic. In addition to these two state programs, Highmark Blue Shield also offers SpecialCare, an income-based program for adults and children.

As of February 1, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department introduced a number of changes to the adultBasic program including increased monthly premiums, increased copayments for certain services, 10 percent coinsurance for some services, and a limit on inpatient stays. Complete eligibility and benefits information is provided in the updated brochures.

People who do not qualify for income-based programs may benefit from an individual plan from Highmark Blue Shield. Information about Highmark individual health insurance programs is available at:
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Use the attached Materials Request Form HBS Materials Request Form 3-10 to order additional materials or visit our website for more information about income-based programs: socialMissionPages.do?type=chip.

Please contact me directly at lisa.bellito@highmark.com if you have additional questions.