As part of a deal with California regulators, the state’s largest health insurer will offer new coverage to 2,330 people it dropped after they submitted bills for expensive medical care. By Lisa Girion February 11, 2009 Anthem Blue Cross, the state’s largest for-profit health insurer, has agreed to pay a $1-million fine and offer new [...]

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield(Anthem) and Summerlin Life and Health Insurance Company (Summerlin), a Nevada-based life and health insurance organization, announced today that Summerlin is recommending and endorsing Anthem as the insurer of choice for its members and employer groups as it exits the Nevada commercial PPO business. Anthem and Summerlin have entered into [...]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) and TexomaCare announced today that they have reached an agreement to renew TexomaCare’s status as in-network physicians for BCBSTX’s BlueChoice® PPO and PAR Plan. The agreement is effective January 1, 2009. “We are very pleased to have finalized an agreement that reinstates our relationship with TexomaCare Medical [...]

St. Joseph Health System, which operates Memorial Hospital and Petaluma Valley Hospital, has reached a tentative agreement on continuation of Blue Shield health coverage. Officials of St. Joseph announced late Friday that a verbal agreement on a 14-month contract had been concluded and that remaining details would be worked out next week. The tentative agreement [...]

Blue Cross of Idaho and a group of Twin Falls doctors could work out an agreement in the next few weeks to bring the company’s preferred provider organization plan to Twin Falls, those involved in the talks said over the last week. The PPO would broaden the local options for people on Blue Cross plans [...]

PHILADELPHIA Blue Cross PPO — It happens just about every weekend in every emergency room. A child is brought in for treatment for a non-emergency illness such as strep throat. Family doctors and pediatricians typically do not have office hours on Saturday night or Sunday so worried parents often obtain treatment at the ER. Until [...]