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Health Insurer Aims to Alter Fee Model
Boston :: MA :: USA | 2 days ago
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Friday a deal covering 60,000 members of the Caritas Christi Health Care system, marking one of the country's largest experiments in fundamentally changing the way doctors and hospitals are paid. In most of the U.S. health-care system, doctors and hospitals...
Tags: Blue Cross, Caritas Christi Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, blue shield, U.S, caring systems, caring cost, cross blue, chief executive, Boston, Health Medical Pharma, Managed care, Health economics, Healthcare, Capitation, Medicare, Health policy, Insurance
Blue Cross calls, mailers get NC lawmakers' notice
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility State lawmakers and attorneys are scrutinizing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina for its attempt to influence the national health care debate through direct mail and possibly illegal automated phone calls. More Business The state Attorney...
Tags: North Carolina, Blue Cross, Seattle, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Insurance, Health maintenance organizations, Robocall, Healthcare in the United States, Politics, Social Issues, Health insurance, Opposition research, Telemarketing, Kay Hagan, CAQH, Types of insurance
Pilot project may revolutionize how health care is managed
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility A pilot program is helping 13 area doctors’ offices convert to doing that for their patients. The two-year program, backed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and Leawood-based TransforMED, involves 13 primary care, family practice and pediatric...
Tags: primary care, health care, Blue Cross, pilot project, care doctors, Kansas City Internal Medicine, family practice, Kansas City, Medical informatics, Medical home, Family medicine, Health care system, Medicine, Healthcare, Health economics, Health policy, Health Medical Pharma
Widow stuck with $161K bill for failed cancer treatment
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois denies claims; Cancer Treatment Centers of America sends $161,601.50 bill Jose Sanchez was desperate when he visited the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in January. The 49-year-old Waukegan man, diagnosed with...
Tags: Blue Cross, Fanny Gonzalez, Anne Meisner, Avastin, Jose Sanchez, gastric cancer, problem solver, insurance companies, Chicago, Stomach cancer, Bevacizumab, Gastrointestinal cancer, Cancer, Health Medical Pharma
Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes
Boston :: MA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Bob Carroll, owner of a Billerica distributor of paint spraying equipment, recently got some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company’s health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January. So did Dan Greenbaum, president of a research...
Tags: small businesses, Blue Cross, health care, Bob Carroll, Allen P. Maltz, premium increase, Boston, health insurers, Massachusetts, Jim Edholm, Insurance, Health insurance, Universal health care, Health insurance in the United States, Massachusetts health care reform, Business Finance, Healthcare reform in the United States, Universal healthcare, Health economics, Labor, Health Medical Pharma
Retailers, insurer team up to provide health care cards
Holly Hill :: FL :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility The high cost of premiums kept Ettore Carrubba from participating in employer-provided health insurance plans. "I just couldn't see why I should have to pay so much money when I heard of other plans for less," Carrubba said, when interviewed outside the...
Tags: health careful, Blue Shield of Florida, Blue Cross, discount cards, James Quiggle, careful cards, Ettore Carrubba, provider health, health insurer, Holly Hill, Health policy, Healthcare, Health insurance, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Loyalty program, Insurance, Health economics, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Labor
Medicaid's biggest fans
London :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
Credibility But some are petrified of any reform President Barack Obama and Congress might make and fear they might lose some of their benefits. The seniors at the center discussed health care just days before the U.S. House passed a health care bill on Nov. 7. ;We...
Tags: Blue Cross, Barack Obama, Medicare, Sorensen, United Kingdom, London, United States National Health Care Act, AARP, Healthcare reform, Medicare+Choice, Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medigap, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Developers have high hopes for old Blue Cross complex in Richardson
Plano :: TX :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility Now it's the biggest block of new office space up for grabs in Richardson's Telecom Corridor.When Blue Cross moves to its new headquarters in north Richardson early next year, its complex on U.S. Highway 75 at Spring Valley Road goes dark. Developer...
Tags: Blue Cross, Richardson Chamber, KDC, office space, square feet, Toby Grove, Plano, Richardson Texas, Telecom Corridor, Key distribution center, Collin County Texas, Dallas County Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Unicare Pulling Health Insurance Out Of Texas
Beware of the rate Blue Cross is offering you if you are one of these affect Unicare clients. The rate (in most cases) is more than if you were to apply with Blue Cross directly. However, iIf you choose to apply with Blue Cross driectly you will...
Tags: Unicare, Blue Cross, leaving, Texas, health
Blue Cross tells insurance agents premiums will raise significantly if reform passes
In an effort to prepare Blue Cross health care insurance providers with ample time, the major insurance provider in California announced that premiums will rise significantly for individual and small businesses. One Blue Cross agent wasn’t surprised...
Tags: health care reform, blue cross
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