Blue shield is excited to share Small Business Market incentive updates, including the enhanced Bonus Program and the newly reduced participation requirements.  Blue Shield encourages you to review these opportunities and explore how they can help drive even greater success in the year ahead.

Health Net to Blue Shield transition bonus
Applicable effective dates: October 1, 2026 through March 1, 2027
Small group medical members
1-50 members      $100 per member
51-100 members  $150 per member
101+ members      $200 per member
Dental members  $20  per member
Vision members   $5 per member

Increased underwriting flexibility for groups with 10/01/2026 - 3/1/2027 effective dates
Writing Blue Shield alongside another carrier's HMO
Reduced minimum enrollee requirement to 3 employees and 65% participation between all carrier.   For groups transitioned from Health Net with 3+ enrolling employees, a prior bill may be used in lieu of the DE9C/payroll**.

Simplified Renewal Date Changes
For transitioning Health Net groups, the 30 -day advance submission and six-month Blue Shield requirements are tem porarily waived for renewal date change requests, including eligible off-cycle changes

Qualifying Events
Loss of coverage is a qualifying event. If an existing Blue Shield group was written alongside Health Net, members losing coverage can transition to a Blue Shield plan

Flexible Reinstatements
Groups that left Blue Shield can come back by reinstating their prior coverage within 60 days of their termina tion date – same group number, same member IDs, same great experience.

These exciting opportunities compliment Blue Shield's existing programs, providing even more ways to drive growth, reward success, and maximize results.