Blue Cross & Blue Shield: Chicago Government Payments

as recorded by Chicago: BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD

Blue Cross & Blue Shield is the 10th-largest recipient of Chicago city government payments tracked by SpendLedger. Its payments amount to 72.8% of everything the Department of Finance has paid vendors in that span.

$609,983,746total received
68payments
1agency
Jan 24, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025first / last payment
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Payments by fiscal year

The payment history

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1 fiscal years on record. The incoming flows below combine all recorded years.

Fiscal years may be partial; missing years are not zero spending. Negative columns reflect net refunds or corrections. Amounts share a linear scale.

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Jan 24, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025 · All recorded fiscal years

Showing 1 of 1 positive agencies in these records.

Flow widths compare the relationships shown. Percentages use the full recorded supplier total for this period: $609,983,745.56. Zero and net-negative relationships are excluded from positive flows.

The relationships at a glance

Total shown
$609,983,745.56
Payments represented
68
Paying agencies shown
1
Largest share of supplier total
100.0%

Largest displayed relationship: Department of Finance. Select a flow to explore its details.

Jan 24, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025 · All recorded fiscal years. Amount and payment count cover the relationships shown; shares use the full supplier total.

Receiving supplier

Blue Cross & Blue Shield

$609,983,746from the agencies shown

Blue Cross & Blue Shield
$609,983,746 from the agencies shown

  1. $609,983,746100.0% of supplier total

This is a selection, not a full spending breakdown. Other agencies are not included in the flow. Some recorded agencies have no public profile link. Coverage may be partial. Review the agency table.

Payments by fiscal year and agency

Fiscal yearAgencyPaymentsTotal
FY 2025Department of Finance68$609,983,746

Largest payments by fiscal year

The biggest individual payments in each fiscal year, up to 20 per year. Where the source publishes a purchase order behind a payment, the PO description appears; older payments may carry a bare PO reference because the government's published PO files do not reach back that far.

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FY 2025top 20 of 68 payments$609,983,746
DateAgencyAmountCategoryPurchase order
Dec 18, 2025Department of Finance$43,242,336.97–PO 233859
Sep 19, 2025Department of Finance$41,356,165.04–PO 233859
Feb 7, 2025Department of Finance$40,857,058.97–PO 233859
Aug 26, 2025Department of Finance$39,197,268.04–PO 233859
Mar 14, 2025Department of Finance$38,541,540.26–PO 233859
Apr 8, 2025Department of Finance$38,197,901.60–PO 233859
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$37,327,550.16–PO 233859
Feb 7, 2025Department of Finance$36,304,008.30–PO 233859
Jun 20, 2025Department of Finance$35,284,101.00–PO 233859
May 2, 2025Department of Finance$35,248,361.45–PO 233859
Apr 10, 2025Department of Finance$34,213,466.07–PO 233859
Jun 3, 2025Department of Finance$33,511,086.50–PO 233859
Feb 7, 2025Department of Finance$28,185,400.71–PO 233859
Oct 20, 2025Department of Finance$18,631,532.04–PO 233859
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$7,830,781.88–PO 32227
Oct 22, 2025Department of Finance$7,632,997.07–PO 32227
Mar 14, 2025Department of Finance$7,456,773.76–PO 32227
Jun 20, 2025Department of Finance$6,813,579.24–PO 32227
Jan 24, 2025Department of Finance$6,717,691.02–PO 32227
Feb 7, 2025Department of Finance$6,559,637.42–PO 32227

Recent payments

DateAgencyAmountCategoryMethod
Dec 18, 2025Department of Finance$331,258.11––
Dec 18, 2025Department of Finance$43,242,336.97––
Nov 28, 2025Department of Finance$1,452,162.80––
Nov 28, 2025Department of Finance$6,482,655.86––
Nov 4, 2025Department of Finance$110,130.52––
Oct 29, 2025Department of Finance$111,030.01––
Oct 28, 2025Department of Finance$1,342,792.49––
Oct 22, 2025Department of Finance$7,632,997.07––
Oct 20, 2025Department of Finance$347,677.12––
Oct 20, 2025Department of Finance$18,631,532.04––
Sep 26, 2025Department of Finance$5,886,608.81––
Sep 19, 2025Department of Finance$1,406,295.85––
Sep 19, 2025Department of Finance$109,212.68––
Sep 19, 2025Department of Finance$41,356,165.04––
Sep 19, 2025Department of Finance$249,651.41––
Sep 8, 2025Department of Finance$111,850.90––
Aug 26, 2025Department of Finance$6,512,358.23––
Aug 26, 2025Department of Finance$1,501,885.48––
Aug 26, 2025Department of Finance$39,197,268.04––
Aug 26, 2025Department of Finance$415,089.60––
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$319,131.83––
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$7,830,781.88––
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$111,429.89––
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$1,364,666.48––
Aug 4, 2025Department of Finance$37,327,550.16––

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VerifiedData refreshed Sep 24, 2026 from Chicago Checkbook (data.cityofchicago.org): 266,483 payments on record, Jan 3, 2022 to Dec 31, 2025. How we verify this data