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		<title><![CDATA[Highmark Employee Volunteers Receive $7,000 in Grants to Support Local Nonprofits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grants are awarded to community programs with which employees volunteer  PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17  /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Inc. recently awarded $7,000 in grants to 14 nonprofit organizations across Pennsylvania to help fund volunteer programs supported by its employees. Grants were awarded to programs that provide physical activity opportunities for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Highmark and Independence Blue Cross Withdraw Applications to Combine]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA and PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross IBC announced today that they have withdrawn their applications to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department PID to combine the two companies. They submitted the applications to the PID in April 2007.  In a joint statement, Kenneth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM Helps Highmark Optimize "Green" Data Center]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has partnered with Highmark Inc. to transform Highmark's energy-efficient data center in its Harrisburg, PA location. For Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, a commitment toward a healthier environment will help to create healthier communities.  An increasing number of companies are implementing initiatives to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: Blues merger would save money, but competition saves even more]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The question of which jobs Blues would cut in a merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, Independence Blue Cross has steadily eliminated positions - six enrollment quality data analysts, eight enrollment specialists, two enrollment supervisors - 54 jobs in all, according to internal documents. The Philadelphia-based health insurer says the reductions have nothing to do with its proposed merger with Highmark Inc., of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A hearing on Blues merger gets arcane]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was almost as if economists had donned armor, grabbed lances, and charged into battle over the proposed merger of Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. The economists were jousting during recent statewide hearings over the issue of competition, with each side sending its best hired brains into the fray....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In merger battle, Highmark discovers allies in nonprofits]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5295/is_20080725/ai_n28054810]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[REGION   Highmark Inc. provides millions of dollars to nonprofits throughout Pennsylvania. Many of the midstate-based organizations are expressing their gratitude by supporting Highmark as it tries to win state approval to merge with Independence Blue Cross. A lot of the more than 100 public comments posted on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurance deal draws support]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two insurance brokers, and a union leader and an office-furniture dealer came to the same conclusion but from different points of view. In today's business climate, it's either grow or die. That's why, at a public hearing yesterday, they urged Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario to approve a consolidation between...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurers pressed on competition at merger hearing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG - When it comes to their proposed merger to create the state's largest insurer, executives at Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. insist they won't play hardball when it comes to negotiating with doctors and hospitals over payments for their services, despite their market clout. But the head of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Highmark Selects Eliza Corporation as Exclusive Provider of Automated, Phone-Based Healthcare Communications]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expansion of Eliza's personalized, interactive approach will drive healthier behavior across a wider Highmark population  BEVERLY, Mass. -- Highmark announces the selection of Eliza Corporation as its exclusive provider of automated, phone-based healthcare communications. Eliza's call programs - backed by a patented speech recognition technology and sophisticated data analysis...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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