Blue KC in the Kansas small group market
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, known as Blue KC, is the Blue plan for the Kansas City area. On the Kansas side, Johnson and Wyandotte counties are in its territory rather than Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas's, so employers in Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas usually see Blue KC plans when they shop.
Its 2026 Kansas small group filing carries a geographic factor for rating area 1 only, the Kansas City metro. The filing lists three products, two of them PPO lines that bundle pediatric dental, and marks two older plans as terminated.
What Blue KC filed for 2026
- Filing entity
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (issuer 94248)
- Product lines
- 3
- Plans offered
- 24, plus 2 marked terminated
- Plan types
- 6 EPO, 18 PPO
- Metal levels
- 10 Bronze, 10 Silver, 4 Gold
- Filed change
- +8.65% across the submission, 0% to +10.97% plan by plan
- CMS status
- Submission Complete
The filed change is an average across this carrier's plans. Your own renewal can land above or below it, because it moves with your plan, your rating area, your employees' ages and who enrolls.
How Blue KC has moved, year by year
| Plan year | Change | Stage | Plans | Filing ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -2.68% | Filed, Rate Filing Accepted | 23 | 94248-2582006440701646852 |
| 2025 | +16.87% | Filed, Review Complete | 23 | 94248-2847249640842662912 |
| 2026 | +8.65% | Filed, Submission Complete | 26 | URR-94248KS-2026-11 |
| 2027 | +13.39% | Requested, Submission Filed | 942487111 |
Filed and requested changes are not approvals. History comes from the January 1 annual filings in each year's CMS public use file; the newest year is the request on file in the CMS rate review search. Full detail on the Kansas rate tracker.
Where Blue KC prices its Kansas plans
Each carrier files a factor for every Kansas rating area it serves. Below 1.000 means that area prices under the carrier's own statewide base; above 1.000 means over it. The factor compares areas within this carrier only, not one carrier against another.
| Rating area | Region | Factor | Our city pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas City metro (4 counties) | 1.000 | Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee |
County lists for each area are on the Kansas rating areas page. These factors say where a carrier prices, not which doctors are in its network; we check networks against your team separately.
Getting a Blue KC quote
We are an independent broker, so we do not quote one carrier on its own. Send us your headcount, the ZIP codes where your people work and your renewal date, and we will price Blue KC next to every other carrier that writes your area and group size. You see the plans side by side, with networks and drug lists checked against your team, and decide from there. It costs your business nothing.
