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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Already, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET) and most Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are making bundled payments to groups of doctors and hospitals.
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.
Its directors and advisers hail from tech giants such as Texas Instruments, Blue Cross Blue Shield and several major research hospitals in the region.
The report mentioned most health insurers, including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI), Humana (HUM), Wellpoint (WLP) and an array of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans contributing to what the AMA described as significant market concentration.
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In January 2014, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans will be providing subsidized coverage to individuals and small businesses via state or federally-regulated exchanges established under the health law.
"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.
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.
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.
They have their benefits provided by large and medium-sized employers and administered by health plans that include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
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.
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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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana president and chief executive officer Michael E.
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.
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?
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.
For decades, the number of independently operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans has fallen through consolidation to compete with rivals like Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) that have grown commercial business largely through acquisition.
Earlier this week, the New York Times followed up on a story the newspaper wrote about a year ago that featured an effort by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois that is achieving some success in how it pays a Chicago-based healthcare system.
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The number of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans tends to consolidate in waves with nearly 130 plans that did business in the mid-1970s, falling to less than 60 by the end of the 1990s to 38 independently operated Blues plans today, according to the trade group that represents them.
The database includes large and midsize employers with more than 1, 000 workers and in some cases, tens of thousands of workers who have their health plans administered by the biggest names in health insurance including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) as well as Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the country.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee ultimately chose to keep eDoc4u as a client and paid up for the expanded offerings.
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.
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.
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.
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