Notice of nondiscrimination and accessibility

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Blue Plus, we treat everyone fairly. 

We don’t exclude you, or treat you less favorably, because of your race, skin color, national origin, age, disability status, or sex (including sexual orientation; sex characteristics including intersex traits; pregnancy or related conditions; gender identity; and sex stereotypes). We follow federal civil rights laws and don’t discriminate against anyone based on these traits.

Communication assistance

Need support reaching out?

If you communicate best in a language other than English, you can request free language assistance services.

If you have a vision, hearing, or speech impairment, we can communicate in a way that works best for you. This may include using sign language interpreters, providing documents in large print or Braille, audio recordings, or other aids at no charge.

Need these services? Call 1-855-903-2583, TTY 711 or call the number on the back of your member identification card.
 

Available languages

ENGLISH
ATTENTION: If you speak a language other than English, language services are available free of charge. If you have a vision, hearing, or speech impairment, we can communicate in a way that works best for you. This may include using sign language interpreters, providing documents in large print or Braille, audio recordings, or other aids at no charge. Call 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

ESPAÑOL (Spanish)
ATENCIÓN: Si habla Español, puede solicitar servicios gratuitos de asistencia lingüística. Si tiene una deficiencia visual, auditiva o del habla, podemos comunicarnos de la manera que le resulte mejor a usted. Esto puede incluir el uso de intérpretes de lengua de señas, el suministro de documentos en letra grande o braille, grabaciones de audio u otras ayudas sin cargo. Llame al 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

العربية(Arabic)
تنبيه: إذا كنت تتحدث العربية، يمكنك طلب خدمات المساعدة اللغوية المجانية. إذا كنت تعاني من إعاقة بصرية أو سمعية أو نطقية، يمكننا التواصل معك بالطريقة التي تناسبك. وقد يشمل ذلك استخدام مترجمين للغة الإشارة، أو توفير المستندات بحروف كبيرة أو بطريقة برايل، أو تسجيلات صوتية، أو غيرها من الوسائل المساعدة من دون مقابل. اتصل على الرقم 1-855-903-2583 (الهاتف النصي 711).

አማርኛ (Amharic)
ትኩረት ይሰጥ፦ አማርኛ ቋንቋ የሚናገሩ ከሆነ፣ ነጻ የቋንቋ እገዛ አገልግሎቶችን መጠየቅ ይችላሉ። የማየት፣ የመስማት ወይም የመናገር ችግር ካለብዎት ለእርስዎ በተሻለ በሚሠራው መንገድ መግባባት እንችላለን። ይህ ደግሞ የምልክት ቋንቋ አስተርጓሚዎችን መጠቀምን፣ በትላልቅ ህትመቶች ወይም በብሬይል የተጻፉ ሰነዶችን፣ የድምፅ ቅጂዎችን ወይም ሌሎች መርጃዎችን ያለ ክፍያ ማቅረብን ይጨምራል። 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711) ላይ ይደውሉ።    

LUS HMOOB (Hmong)
LUS CEEV TSHWJ XEEB: Yog hais tias koj hais Lus Hmoob, koj tuaj yeem thov cov kev pab cuam uas pab hom lus tau dawb. Yog hais tias koj qhov muag tsis pom kev zoo, tsis hnov lus, los sis hais tsis tau lus, peb tuaj yeem sib txuas lus hauv ib txoj hau kev uas ua hauj lwm tau zoo tshaj plaws rau koj. Qhov no tej zaum yuav muaj xam nrog kev siv cov neeg txhais lus piav tes, kev muab cov ntaub ntawv luam tawm ua tus ntawv loj los sis Ua Ntawv Su Rau Cov Neeg Tsis Pom Kev Siv Tau (Braille), kev kaw ua suab lus, los sis lwm yam kev pab yam tsis tau them nqi. Hu rau 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

廣東話 (Cantonese – Traditional Chinese)
請注意:如果您說 廣東話 您可要求免費語言協助服務。 如果您有視力、聽力或言語障礙,我們會以最適合您的方式與您溝通 這可能包括使用手語傳譯員、免費提供大字體或點字文件、 錄音或其他輔助工具。請致電 1-855-903-2583 聽障熱線 (TTY 711)。

简体中文 (Chinese Simplified)
注意:如果您说普通话,则可以免费申请语言协助服务。 如果您有视力、听力或语言障碍,我们可以用最适合您的方式 与您交流。这可能包括免费提供手语翻译、大字体或盲文文件、 录音或其 他辅助工具。 请致电 1-855-903-2583(文字电话 711)。

SOOMALI (Somali)
XASUUSIN: Haddii aad ku hadasho Soomali, waxaad codsan kartaa adeegyada caawimaadda luqada oo bilaash ah. Haddii aad laxaad la’aan kataahy aragga, maqalka, ama hadalka, waxaanu kugula xidhiidhi karnaa habka adiga kuugu habboon. Tan waxaa ka mid ah in aan isticmaalno turjumaanada luuqada dhegoolaha, in la bixiyo waraaqo ku qoran xarfaha waaweyn ama qoraalka indhoolayaasha, in la sameeyo cajalado la duubay, ama in la helo waxyaabo kale oo caawimaad ah oo bilaash ah. Wac 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

FRANÇAIS (French)
ATTENTION : Si vous parlez Français, vous pouvez demander des services d’assistance linguistique gratuits. Si vous avez une déficience visuelle, auditive ou vocale, nous pouvons communiquer de la manière qui vous convient le mieux. Il peut s’agir d’interprètes en langue des signes, de documents en gros caractères ou en braille, d’enregistrements audio ou d’autres aides gratuites. Composez le 
1-855-903-2583 (ATS 711).

ខ្មែរ (Khmer)
ការជូនដំណឹង៖ ប្រសិនបើអ្នកនិយាយភាសា ខ្មែរ អ្នកអាចស្នើសុំសេវាជំនួយបកប្រែភាសាដោយឥតគិតថ្លៃ។ ប្រសិនបើអ្នកមើលមិនឃើញ ស្ដាប់មិនឮ ឬនិយាយមិនបាន យើងអាចប្រាស្រ័យទាក់ទងជាមួយអ្នកតាមរបៀបផ្សេងដែលមានប្រសិទ្ធភាពល្អបំផុតសម្រាប់អ្នក។ ការប្រាស្រ័យទាក់ទងនេះអាចមានដូចជាអ្នកបកប្រែភាសាសញ្ញា ការផ្ដល់ឯកសារដែលបោះពុម្ពអក្សរធំៗ ឬអក្សរស្ទាប ឬការថតទុកជាសំឡេង ឬជំនួយផ្សេងទៀត ដោយឥតគិតថ្លៃ។ ទូរសព្ទទៅលេខ 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711)។

한국어 (Korean)
주의: 한국어를 사용하시는 경우 귀하는 무료 언어 지원 서비스를 요청하실 수 있습니다. 시각 장애, 청각 장애 또는 언어 장애가 있는 경우 저희는 귀하에게 가장 적합한 방법으로 연락을 드릴 수 있습니다. 여기에는 수화통역사 이용, 대형 활자 또는 점자로 작성된 문서 제공, 음성 녹음 또는 기타 무료 지원이 포함될 수 있습니다. 
1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711) 번으로 전화하십시오.

ကညီကျိာ် (Karen)
ပာ်သူၣ်ပာ်သး- နမ့ၢ်ကတိၤ ကညီကျိာ် န့ၣ်, နဃ့ကျိာ်ဂ့ၢ်၀ီတၢ်တိစၢၤမၤစၢၤလၢတလၢာ်ဘူးလဲ သ့န့ၣ်လီၤႋ နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤလၢ မဲာ်တၢ်ထံၣ်, တၢ်နၢ်ဟူ, မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်စံးကတိၤတၢ်န့ၣ် ပဆဲးကျၢဆဲးကျိးတၢ်လၢ ကျဲကဲထီၣ်လိာ်ထီၣ်အဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢနဂီၢ်သ့န့ၣ်လီၤႋ တၢ်အံၤ ပၣ်ဃုာ်ဒီး တၢ်စူးကါ နီၢ်ခိက့ၢ်ဂီၤကျိာ်အပှၤကျိာ်ထံတၢ်တဖၣ်, တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်လံာ်လဲၢ်တဖၣ်လၢ အလံာ်ဖျၢၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်, မ့တမ့ၢ် ပှၤမဲာ်ဘျီၣ်အလံာ်, တၢ်ကလုၢ်, မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်မၤစၢၤဂုၤဂၤတဖၣ် လၢတလၢာ်အဘူးလဲန့ၣ်လီၤႋ ကိးလီတဲစိဆူ 
1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711) တက့ၢ်ႋ    

မြန်မာဘာသာ (Burmese)
သတိပြုရန်- သင်သည် မြန်မာဘာသာ စကားကို ပြောပါက၊ အခမဲ့ ဘာသာစကား အကူအညီ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများကို တောင်းဆိုနိုင်ပါသည်။ သင့်တွင် အမြင်အာရုံ၊ အကြားအာရုံ သို့မဟုတ် စကားပြောခြင်း ချို့ယွင်းမှုရှိနေပါက သင့်အတွက် အသင့်လျော်ဆုံးဖြစ်မည့်နည်းလမ်းဖြင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ထံသို့ ဆက်သွယ်နိုင်ပါသည်။ ၎င်းတွင် လက်ဟန်ပြဘာသာစကား စကားပြန်များကို အသုံးပြုခြင်း၊ စာရွက်စာတမ်းများကို ပုံနှိပ်စာလုံးကြီးများ သို့မဟုတ် မျက်မမြင်စာဖြင့် ပံ့ပိုးပေးခြင်း၊ အသံဖမ်းယူခြင်းများ သို့မဟုတ် အခြားအထောက်အကူများဖြင့် အခမဲ့ပံ့ပိုးပေးခြင်းတို့ ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711) သို့ ဖုန်းခေါ်ဆိုပါ။

OROMOO (Oromo)
Xiyyeeffannoon haa kennamu፦ Oromo Afaan kan dubbatan yoo ta'e, tajaajiloota gargaarsa afaanii bilisaa gaafachuu ni dandeessu. Rakkoo ilaaluu, dhaga'u ykn dubbachuu yoo qabaattan, karaa isiniif mijatuun haala isiniif galuun mari'achuu ni dandeenya. Kunis of keessatti kan qabatu, hiiktota afaan mallattoo fayyadamuun maxxansa gurguddaa ykn bireeylii, waraabbiiwwan sagalee ykn gargaarsota biroo kaffaltii tokkoo malee gaafachuu dha. 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711) irratti bilbilaa.

РУССКИЙ (Russian)
ВНИМАНИЕ: Если ваш язык — РУССКИЙ, вы можете запросить бесплатные услуги языковой поддержки. 
Если у вас есть нарушение зрения, слуха или речи, мы можем общаться таким образом, который лучше всего подходит вам. Это может включать бесплатное использование переводчиков на языке жестов, предоставление документов крупным шрифтом или шрифтом Брайля, использование аудиозаписей или других вспомогательных средств. Звоните по телефону 
1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

ພາສາລາວ (Lao)
ເອົາໃຈໃສ່: ຖ້າທ່ານເວົ້າ ພາສາລາວ, ທ່ານສາມາດຂໍບໍລິການຊ່ວຍເຫຼືອດ້ານພາສາໄດ້ໂດຍບໍ່ເສຍຄ່າ. ຖ້າທ່ານມີຄວາມບົກຜ່ອງດ້ານສາຍຕາ, ການໄດ້ຍິນ ຫຼື ການປາກເວົ້າ, ພວກເຮົາສາມາດສື່ສານດ້ວຍວິທີທີ່ເໝາະສົມກັບທ່ານທີ່ສຸດ. ອັນນີ້ອາດຈະລວມເຖິງການໃຊ້ນາຍພາສາມື, ການຈັດກຽມເອກະສານເປັນໂຕພິມໃຫຍ່ ຫຼື ອັກສອນນູນ, ການບັນທຶກສຽງ ຫຼື ການຊ່ວຍເຫຼືອດ້ານສື່ອື່ນໆໂດຍບໍ່ເສຍຄ່າໃຊ້ຈ່າຍໃດໆ. ໂທ 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

Tagalog (Tagalog)
PAUNAWA: Kung nagsasalita ka ng Tagalog, maaari kang humingi ng mga libreng serbisyo na tulong sa wika. Kung may kapansanan ka sa paningin, pandinig, o pananalita, maaari tayong mag-usap sa paraan na pinakamabuti para sa iyo. Maaaring kabilang dito ang paggamit ng mga interpreter ng sign language, pagbibigay ng mga dokumento na malalaki ang pagkaprinta o Braille, mga audio recording, o iba pang mga tulong nang walang bayad. Tumawag sa 1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

VIETNAMESE (Vietnamese)
LƯU Ý: Nếu quý vị nói Vietnamese, quý vị có thể yêu cầu dịch vụ hỗ trợ ngôn ngữ miễn phí. Nếu quý vị bị khiếm thị, khiếm thính hoặc khuyết tật về âm ngữ, chúng tôi có thể giao tiếp theo cách phù hợp nhất với quý vị. Điều này có thể bao gồm việc sử dụng thông dịch viên ngôn ngữ ký hiệu, cung cấp tài liệu dạng bản in cỡ chữ lớn hoặc chữ nổi, bản ghi âm hoặc các phương tiện hỗ trợ khác miễn phí. Xin gọi số 
1-855-903-2583 (TTY 711).

Contact info

Discrimination is against the law

If we failed to provide services or discriminated in another way based on your race, skin color, national origin, age, disability status or sex (including sexual orientation; sex characteristics including intersex traits; pregnancy or related conditions; gender identity; and sex stereotypes), you can file a complaint:

Nondiscrimination Civil Rights Coordinator

Email: Civil.Rights.Coord@bluecrossmn.com

Telephone: 1-800-509-5312 

Mailing address: 
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
ATTN: Civil Rights Coordinator P3-2
PO Box 64560, Eagan, MN 55164-0560

Nondiscrimination complaint forms are available:  
On our website at bluecrossmn.com/NDL, or from the Nondiscrimination Civil Rights Coordinator.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Electronically through the Office for Civil Rights complaint portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf

Telephone: 1-800-368-1019, 1-800-537-7697 (TDD)

Mailing address: 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue SW, Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 20201 

Civil rights complaint forms are available at:
hhs.gov/ocr/office/file/index.html

Notice of nondiscrimination practices effective July 18, 2016.