News For: Blue Cross Temp InsuranceBlue 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. Finance Q&A: Job loss and health insurance Question: I just lost my job. What are the best options for preserving some form of health insurance? Answer: Don't confuse "best" with "affordable." One of the first lessons many unemployed people learn is how expensive health insurance really can be. Contract dispute could affect Premera Blue Cross subscribers If a contract standoff isn't resolved, 16,000 people in Thurston County won't be able to use their Premera Blue Cross insurance at Providence St. Peter Hospital after Jan. 31. New contract for UAW, 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. City insurance pool deadline approaches PITTSFIELD ��� City officials and the Public Employees Committee representing 17 municipal unions have one more shot at Pittsfield joining the state's Group Insurance Commission ��� and saving millions in health insurance premiums. Premera Blue Cross Expands Provider Network; Welcomes Back Puget Sound Family Physicians Premera Blue Cross and Puget Sound Family Physicians PSFP announced today that they had reached agreement on a new three-year contract that will bring the practice and more than 40 physicians back into the Blue Cross Network effective September 15, 2008. TV, Radio Red Sox at Blue Jays, 7 p.m. Twins at Rays, 7 p.m. Holy Cross at Harvard, 7 p.m. Baylor at UConn, 8 p.m. Athol at Oxford, 7 p.m. Retiree With Rare Debilitating Disease Fears Her Insurance More Than Her Illness "I have a very rare and incurable disease called systemic mastocytosis, which very few doctors even know about," said Juanita Anderson who resides in Los Angeles, California. "It has changed my life totally. I had to stop working last year when I was 62 and able to retire. My health insurance is very expensive and is taken out of my retirement check. Smith resigns from Blue Cross You may have seen her on TV along with a blue man promoting good health. Now, the president and CEO of Capital Blue Cross is calling it quits. Anita Smith resigns as Capital Blue Cross CEO Anita Smith, president and CEO of Capital Blue Cross for the past four years, has resigned, effective immediately. The company would not disclose the reasons for the resignation or what Smith plans to do. |




