Blue Shield of California plans to lay off 18 employees in Rancho Cordova and El Dorado Hills, bringing total job cuts at the two capital region hubs to 87 over the past nine months, according to state filings.
The layoffs, which are scheduled to take effect April 8 and May 19, include 12 employees at 4203 Town Center Blvd. in El Dorado Hills and six at 3300 Zinfandel Drive in Rancho Cordova, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice submitted to the California Employment Development Department.
The reductions were part of a broader statewide layoff affecting other Blue Shield offices in Oakland, Long Beach, Woodland Hills, San Diego, Redding and Lodi. The nonprofit health insurer, based in Oakland, provides health coverage to individuals, employers and public program enrollees, including Medicare and Medi-Cal members, and serves about 6 million members with more than 6,500 employees.
Since July, the company has reported 301 layoffs at its offices across the state to EDD officials, including 60 in El Dorado County and 27 in Sacramento County.
The new layoffs for El Dorado Hills include four claims processors, one innovation analyst, one program manager, one strategic planning and performance employee, and one senior director of technical engineering, according to the notice. The new layoffs for Rancho Cordova include three quality assurance auditors, one customer service employee and one senior manager of program and project management.
“As a nonprofit health plan, Blue Shield of California is driven by our mission to provide access to high quality health care that’s sustainably affordable,” Mark Seelig, a Blue Shield of California spokesperson, said in an email. “We regularly adjust our staff based on business needs — reducing headcount in some areas and adding in others — while continuing to grow and transform across the organization.”
Seelig said the cuts were part of ongoing staffing adjustments and affected less than 1% of the company’s workforce.
The company said affected employees would receive 90 days’ notice and continue to receive pay and benefits through their separation date, with access to internal job postings, skills training and severance benefits.
“We are proud that in 2025 we redeployed 43% of our impacted employees into new roles within the organization,” Seelig said.
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Theresa Clift is the Regional Watchdog Reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She covered Sacramento City Hall for The Bee from 2018 through 2024. Before joining The Bee, she worked for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. She grew up in Michigan and graduated with a journalism degree from Central Michigan University.