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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
1133 SW Topeka Boulevard, Topeka, Kansas, United States
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. is a Kansas member-owned, not-for-profit mutual health insurer based in Topeka and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Its exact current corporation was formed May 1, 1983 through consolidation of the earlier Kansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations; predecessor health-insurance operations began in March 1942. It serves 103 Kansas counties, excluding Johnson and Wyandotte, and is distinct from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, other regional Blue plans and the separately incorporated Kansas foundation. The insurer supports healthcare innovation through corporate strategic investments and its historically documented New Ventures Initiative. Its CFO’s current own biography explicitly includes responsibility for strategic investments. It invested USD1.5 million in teen behavioral-health technology company BeMe Health in an issuer announcement dated November 14, 2023, accompanying a mental-health access partnership. This establishes a healthcare and behavioral-health technology investment relationship, not a claim that the insurer itself develops AI or neuroscience devices. The current public leadership directory names twelve executives and its governance roster names fifteen directors, with Matthew D. All appearing in both. All is president and CEO, and Megan L. Jones is board chair. The current individual director biographies take precedence where the summary roster retains an older external-employer name. The organization has no capital-stock authority under its own articles; policyholder premiums, investment assets, statutory reserves, charitable grants and foundation gifts are not represented as venture-fund closings or company equity raises. No separately verified limited-partnership venture vehicle or public closed-fund capital allocation has been established. The authentic corporate logo is from its own public blog. Three named authentic historical portraits were retrievable from that blog; other current leadership image endpoints are publicly published but their binary files were unavailable, and those gaps remain explicit. BeMe’s August 2024 additional financing announcement does not name Kansas, so no second participation is inferred.
Founded 1983
Team
Amanda D. HuelskampBoard Director |
Angela N. WilsonBoard Director |
Brittni OehmkeBoard Director |
Clay BrittonSenior Vice President and General Counsel |
Garrett LoveBoard Director |
Gregory V. BinnsBoard Director |
Holly GravesVice President, Operations and COO of Government Programs |
James A. KlausmanBoard Director |
James H. Gilbaugh IIIBoard Director |
Jeff BergmanSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Jeff D. MullenBoard Director |
Jeffrey R. ThompsonBoard Director |
Jena K. LysenBoard Director |
Leonard R. HernandezBoard Director |
Mandy HarrisChief of Staff |
Matt LangdonVice President and Chief Information Officer |
 Matthew D. AllPresident and CEO · Board Director |
Megan L. JonesChair, Board of Directors |
Mike GerrishVice President, Chief Marketing and Experience Officer |
Nicki FlanaganSenior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer |
Raelene KnollaSenior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer |
Rick C. JacksonBoard Director |
Rick D. BadenBoard Director |
Staci BergerVice President, Provider Network Solutions |
 Sunee MickleVice President, Government and Community Relations |
 Treena MasonExecutive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer |
