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- Independence Blue Cross, Jefferson Health System Reach Agreement on New Three-Year Contracts
- PHILADELPHIA, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The region's leading health insurer, Independence Blue Cross IBC, and the area's largest health care system, the Jefferson Health System JHS, announced today that they have reached agreement on new three-year contracts.
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Health Dialog to Present with Independence Blue Cross at the 2006 Health Management Congress; Health Dialog Chief Medical Officer, IBC Health Management Programs Manager Also Presenting This Year
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- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Zix Corporation Selected by Independence Blue Cross for e-Prescribing Pilot Program; Philadelphia's Largest Health Insurer to Make PocketScript® Available to Select Physicians in Three States
- DALLAS -- Zix Corporation (ZixCorpR), (Nasdaq:ZIXI), a global provider of secure e-messaging and e-prescribing solutions and services, today announced that Independence Blue Cross IBC -- Philadelphia's largest health insurer with more than 3.5 million members -- will sponsor an e-prescribing pilot program for an initial 500 physicians in Pennsylvania, New...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
- NaviMedix To Deliver Online Administrative Transactions to 30,000 Independence Blue Cross Healthcare Providers throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
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- Research articles 2001-08-02
- Two Pennsylvania insurers face lawsuits over practices.(News)(Cigna Corp., Aetna Inc., and Independence Blue Cross in cases)
- Byline: LAURA B. BENKO Even as one Pennsylvania-based health insurer settles its legal woes, two others may be heading to court to defend themselves against allegations of illegally hoarding money-one from consumers, the other from providers. C Byline: LAURA B....
- Research articles 2003-09-15
- Independence Blue Cross Selects Allscripts for e-Prescribing Initiative; Philadelphia's Largest Health Insurer to Promote Physician Adoption of Electronic Prescribing
- PHILADELPHIA & CHICAGO -- Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Independence Blue Cross has selected the Allscripts e-prescribing solution, along with a second vendor, for a pilot program that will bring clinical automation to more...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
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- Regional health-care forecast is fairly 'rosy'
- The trend toward more public information about medical cost and quality, combined with the pending merger of insurers Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc., ultimately will tip the balance of power here toward health plans, a Duke University health expert told area medical leaders yesterday.For the time being, though, "we...
- Research articles 2007-06-14
- Healthcare Roundup: Medical Tourism Goes Pro, HCA CEO Out, Chicago Hospital Fails, and More
- More health-insurance plans paying for overseas care -- Medical tourism, or sending patients to cheaper overseas hospitals, appears to be the latest new tool for health-insurance companies and employers seeking to cut costs. Among the most recent developments: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina created a medical-tourism subsidiary...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- In brief.(News)(briefs)(Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd.)
- Pa. Blues, Highmark plan merger Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. and Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross announced last week that they will merge to create the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania, providing health care coverage to about 8 Pa. Blues, Highmark plan merger ...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- Report: Blues merger would save money, but competition saves even more
- Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. promise that their proposed merger would benefit the public to the tune of more than a billion dollars in six years. But if Pittsburgh's Highmark entered the Philadelphia market as a competitor to Independence Blue Cross, rather than a collaborator, insurance customers and health-care...
- Research articles 2008-09-12
- Boards of Pa.'s big Blues back merger
- Yesterday's decision by Pennsylvania's two largest health insurers to merge would create a behemoth that would handle more business than all but two national competitors.Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. say they intend to maintain dual headquarters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, employ more than 18,000 people in Pennsylvania, and improve...
- Research articles 2007-03-29
- Rebutting the Blues
- The state's two largest insurers may say their merger will produce operating efficiencies, but health-care economist Lawton R. Burns wasn't buying it.Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc.'s chief executive officers were the first to speak at yesterday's public hearing - and they repeated what they had said before:The merger would...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
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