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Top Blue Cross and Blue Shield-Branded Managed Care Organizations Lost More Than One Million Members in the First Half of 2008

HealthLeaders-InterStudy's Managed Market Surveyor-Rx Evaluates How Medical and Pharmacy Lives are Covered at National, State and MSA Levels NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that the 15 largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield-branded managed care organizations collectively lost more than one ...

Fairview and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Reach Contract Agreement for Clinics and Hospitals

MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairview and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota have reached an agreement on a contract that allows Fairview clinics to remain as participating providers in all of Blue Cross' provider networks. The Fairview clinic contract was set to expire at ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Wins Five National Awards for Communications Excellence

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation has won five national awards in the 2006 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program. The awards, given by the Council on Foundations and the Communications Network, recognize outstanding communications efforts that increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs. The awards will ...

Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Launches RightPlan PPO 40

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has launched RightPlan PPO 40 for the Nevada market. Designed for self-employed individuals, "empty nesters" and early retirees, children not covered by their parents' plan, and young adults losing dependent coverage, RightPlan expands Anthem's already robust individual product portfolio and complements the company's offerings ...

June 23rd 2009
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New Study Shows Uninsured Crisis Wildly Overestimated

The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has released the results of a new study. that shows that the "widely employed estimate of 47 million uninsured Americans is a misleading representation of the problem." The study, authored by Drs. June and David O'Neill of Baruch College and City University of New York, shows ...
June 3rd 2009
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Anthem Blue Cross Provides Access to Comprehensive Transparency Tool

Anthem Blue Cross has announced that its industry-leading transparency initiative will be available to members in the following counties in the state of California: Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Sacramento/Placer and Yolo counties, San Diego, Imperial County, Orange County, San Joaquin/Valley, North Coast/North state, South Bay/South Coast, San ...
June 1st 2009
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BlueCross Makes Coverage Available for South Carolina Graduates Lacking Health Insurance

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers will hire twenty two percent fewer college graduates in 2009 than they did last year. What does that mean? Recent college grads will not have health insurance. They'll either go without health insurance or they will need to purchase ...
May 30th 2009
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Donates to ASCO Cancer Foundation

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), has donated $100,000 to The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Foundation to help support its efforts to advance cancer research, provide patients with important health information and conduct physician education programs. The donation was presented today during the 45th Annual Meeting ...

Top Blue Cross and Blue Shield-Branded Managed Care Organizations Lost More Than One Million Members in the First Half of 2008

HealthLeaders-InterStudy's Managed Market Surveyor-Rx Evaluates How Medical and Pharmacy Lives are Covered at National, State and MSA Levels NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that the 15 largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield-branded managed care organizations collectively lost more than one ...

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