New for participants with Kelsey-Seybold primary care providers (PCPs) on file with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas: You can now participate in both on-site and virtual Catapult Health clinics and access medical and mental health Virtual Visits through Doctor On Demand® and MDLIVE®.
Kelsey-Seybold Limited Provider Network
If you live in the Houston area and select a primary care provider (PCP) in the Kelsey-Seybold Limited Provider Network, you can see any provider within the Kelsey-Seybold network without a referral on file with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). However, it’s important you stay within the Kelsey-Seybold network for all of your care, including specialist appointments, radiology services and outpatient lab work. Exceptions to this include on-site and virtual Catapult Health clinics and Virtual Visits (see below).
Occasionally, a Kelsey-Seybold provider may recommend a referral to a provider outside of the Kelsey-Seybold network. If this occurs, the Kelsey-Seybold provider must submit a referral to BCBSTX. Participants should confirm they have an approved referral on file with BCBSTX before seeing the provider they were referred to. If a referral is not on file when the participant sees the non-Kelsey-Seybold provider, the participant will receive out-of-network benefits, which can result in higher out-of-pocket costs.
If you have a Kelsey-Seybold PCP and want to see a doctor or other provider in the BCBSTX HealthSelectSM medical plan network who is not affiliated with Kelsey-Seybold, you can call BCBSTX to change your PCP. It will be effective immediately.
HealthSelect medical plan benefits
HealthSelect participants with a Kelsey-Seybold PCP can take advantage of the following programs outside of the Kelsey-Seybold network without a referral if they meet eligibility and other program requirements:
- Buena Vida (coming soon)
- Catapult Health onsite clinics and at-home virtual checkups
- Fitness Program
- Hello Heart
- Hinge Health®
- Learn to Live
- Real Appeal® and WondrTM
- Virtual Visits with MDLIVE® and Doctor On Demand®
Kelsey-Seybold benefits
Kelsey-Seybold offers many benefits, including:
- no referrals required to see Kelsey-Seybold specialists (must have a Kelsey-Seybold PCP),
- a 24-hour Nurse Hotline,
- online orders for pharmacy refills,
- MyKelseyOnline – free personalized online portal,
- online self-scheduling appointments,
- video visits for 50 different medical conditions,
- Kelsey Concierge dedicated to ERS participants at (713) 442-5373 and
- Saturday hours for pediatric care at Fort Bend, Clear Lake, Spring and Tanglewood clinics.
To find providers within the Kelsey-Seybold network, visit kelsey-seybold.com/find.
HealthSelect of Texas participants with other PCPs
If you are enrolled in HealthSelect of Texas® and do not choose a Kelsey-Seybold PCP, you will not be able to see any Kelsey-Seybold provider. Kelsey-Seybold providers do not take referrals from doctors outside Kelsey-Seybold.
You can change your PCP anytime.
BCBSTX Personal Health Assistants are available
by phone
Call a BCBSTX Personal Health
Assistant toll-free
(800) 252-8039 (TTY:711)
Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and
Saturday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. CT.