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Detroit News - Mon Dec 7, 5:26 pm ET
A request by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to hike Medigap rates by 31 percent rate -- affecting about 210,000 seniors -- was turned down today by the state's insurance commissioner.
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WBKO Bowling Green - Tue Dec 8, 9:42 pm ET
If you're under Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield, your insurance policy could change in less than a month.
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Crain's Detroit Business - Mon Dec 7, 6:24 pm ET
Michigan Insurance Commissioner Ken Ross ruled Monday that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan can raise rates for its Medicare supplemental policies no more than 3.8 percent.
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The Times of Trenton - Tue Dec 8, 1:55 am ET
TRENTON -- The New Jersey Podiatric Medical Society and its president, Hamilton-based podiatrist Steve Maffei, have filed suit against Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey and one of its contractors, CareCore National, alleging that the two companies are putting their own profits above the good of patients.
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The Record and Herald News - 42 minutes ago
The list was heavy with key Democrats, ranging from labor leader Ray Pocino to campaign operative Patricia Mueller to the current and former chiefs of staff to Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex).
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The Crowley Post-Signal - Mon Dec 14, 10:13 am ET
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana announced Wednesday that the organization did not renew its contract with Our Lady Health System. According to Franciscan Missionary and Our Lady of Lourdes the two are still in negotiations. The unsettled dispute between the two seems to have stemmed from a rate increase Franciscan Missionaries says it requested from Blue Cross and Blue Shield. On ...
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Lexington Clipper-Herald - Mon Dec 14, 6:51 pm ET
A new federal law helps protect against health insurers dropping coverage. The mother, in her 40s, survived breast cancer and wanted to know whether it was the hereditary kind that could be passed to her daughter.
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Daily Record - Sun Dec 6, 10:04 pm ET
Thomas W. Rubino is director of public affairs for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.
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Abilene Reporter-News - Sun Dec 6, 10:00 pm ET
When some soldiers wake up Christmas morning a half a world away, they will have stockings filled with goodies — and the members of Big Country Supports The Troops, are making sure of that. On Sunday, the group was set up in the Blue Cross Blue Shield parking lot taking donations for the “Stockings for Soldiers” drive which will continue through the end of the week.Members of BCSTT, a group of ...
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MyNC.com - Tue Nov 24, 8:20 pm ET
A group of twenty state lawmakers is concerned about robocalls and mailers from the state's largest health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Mon Dec 14, 2:13 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Think Medicare is a great deal? Better ask grandma first.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Dec 14, 5:45 pm ET
LOS ANGELES----Health Net, Inc. today announced the appointment of Linda Tiano as president, Regional Health Plans, Health Net of the Northeast. In this newly created position, Tiano, 52, will lead the efforts for the Northeast operations under the agreement with UnitedHealthcare and report to Jim Woys, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Health Net, Inc.
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The Indiana Gazette - Mon Dec 14, 11:25 am ET
The White House and liberal think tanks insist that health care reform will lower costs, but the public isn't buying it - and for good reasons.
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Crain's Detroit Business - Mon Dec 14, 6:08 am ET
Michigan's personal health care spending is the lowest of any other Midwest state and has been growing at a slower pace than the national average for more than a decade, said a new report by Ann Arbor-based Center for Healthcare Research &...
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Detroit News - Mon Dec 14, 1:15 am ET
Michigan residents and health insurers spend less on health care than the national average, according to a report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation in Ann Arbor.