News For: Blue Cross Smart ValueBlue seeks the green William Marino joined Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in 1992, when the state's biggest health insurer was losing money and was viewed as slow to anticipate sweeping changes in the health-care landscape. The National Labor Office of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Selects Best Doctors as a Strategic Alliance Best Doctors® Inc., the trusted medical resource for ensuring individuals with serious illnesses and injuries have the right diagnosis and the right treatment, today announced a strategic alliance with the National Labor Office of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. UAW members ratify contract with Mich. Blue Cross United Auto Workers members have voted by about a 3-1 margin to approve a new, three-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Hot competition this winter at Blue Cross Arena Four pro teams will be playing at Blue Cross Arena at the Community War Memorial this winter. Can they all survive in a soft economy? UAW members ratify contract with Mich. Blue Cross Associated Press - September 16, 2008 7:34 PM ET DETROIT - United Auto Workers members have voted by about a 3-1 margin to approve a new, 3-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of... UAW approved Blue Cross pact DETROIT - United Auto Workers union members, including a local in Lansing, have ratified a new contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. UAW members ratify contract with Mich. Blue Cross DETROIT United Auto Workers members have voted by about a 3-1 margin to approve a new, three-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Competition Between Two Pennsylvania Blue Cross Insurers Would Improve Market For Consumers, Report Finds Pennsylvania health care providers and consumers would benefit more if insurers Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield remained competitors rather than collaborators, according to a consultant hired by the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to evaluate the issue, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Illinois health economics firm LECG conducted the study. Health care charges cloaked in confusion It began with a dizzy spell. Before long, though, what really had my head spinning was the inscrutable way that health-care providers and insurers put a dollar value on medical services -- and how that leaves patients unable to determine a fair price for any treatment. |


