Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois squeaked out the top spot for health insurance satisfaction.
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When Massachusetts became a mandatory insurance state, the caterer began offering Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO.
Worse, Smith wasn't able to meet with anyone from Blue Cross Blue Shield until nine months after the merger.
Tenet Healthcare, for one, has offered Blue Cross Blue Shield a discount of 10 percent off of its standard commercial rates.
The Boones were fortunate that Vince's employer's policy with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield picked up the cost of the transplant.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee ultimately chose to keep eDoc4u as a client and paid up for the expanded offerings.
Last year, Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield raised rates by 22 percent after asking to raise them by up to 56 percent.
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Steve is joined by Rod Collins, the former chief operating executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP).
It is part of a broader experiment with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the insurer that employs Ms Duni.
Its directors and advisers hail from tech giants such as Texas Instruments, Blue Cross Blue Shield and several major research hospitals in the region.
Through his work with the Tennessee branch of the insurance company, Smith has been able to land business with Blue Cross Blue Shield's other divisions.
But when Gordian announced its sale to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee , a not-for-profit health insurance company, in August 2005, Smith was shocked.
Thornton later merged with Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire.
Guertin's group designs new health insurance products and related marketing campaigns, sold under the Blue Cross Blue Shield umbrella to corporations and individuals in 14 states.
But the sizzle can enliven its musty mainline business of running computer systems, call centers and data-entry operations for the likes of ChevronTexaco and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
My question is, are the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield MA and BCBSNE Foundation profiting from the mandated MA Healthcare and are they in the same club?
When I joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois as CIO, one of the first things I did was bring in a research company to survey how all company leaders viewed the IT department.
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Indeed, the United States has plenty of non-profit insurers Blue Cross Blue Shield, most notably and their conduct in the marketplace is far closer to that of the for-profit insurers than it is to government payors.
In Illinois, Bridgette Buckner seemed to be hit with tragic misfortune in 2008 when she was injured at work (Hallmark Services, subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield), then her daughter, grandmother and husband had all died.
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Although Gordian had only purchased a single Web program from eDoc4u, Smith designed a customized program with wider capabilities for Blue Cross Blue Shield, anticipating that the larger company could afford and would need more services.
And in Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan there is trying to convert to a mutual plan from nonprofit in what many observers see as a move that will not only allow them to more easily conduct business and grow through future acquisitions.
For example, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield found that overall health care costs were reduced by 50% in the first year when people with heart disease or risk factors went through our lifestyle program in 24 hospitals and clinics in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina recently began buying spending data on more than 3 million people in its employer group plans.
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Doug Bartel, with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, says the marketing plan for retail health coverage is not that different from cell phones.
He previously served as Medicare Part B director for Aetna, administering Medicare plans in nine states, and was with Blue Cross and Blue Shield before that.
The Department of Health and Human Services has identified a small-group policy offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia as the model for Georgia.
"We're hoping employers are willing to try more new things, " says Dr. Allan Korn, senior vice president and chief medical officer for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
In Florida, for example, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has discussed and negotiated partnerships with other Blues plans and continues to do so, according to various reports.
The biggest names in health insurance like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI), Wellpoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the country are contracting with ACOs.
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