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- The Philadelphia Inquirer Loose Change Column.
- By Joseph N. DiStefano, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7--Philadelphia's dominant health insurer, Independence Blue Cross, will not say what it thinks of Gov.-elect Ed Rendell's plan to subsidize doctors' malpractice insurance by draining $220 million from health...
- Research articles 2003-01-07
- KILL BW216, issued May 3, NJ PRINCETON SOFTECH and KILL BW1440, CQN NJ PRINCETON SOFTECH
- Please KILL BW216, issued May 3, (NJ-PRINCETON-SOFTECH) Princeton Softech Accelerates Oracle Application Testing at Independence Blue Cross, Region's Largest Health Insurer which ran on Business Wire at 9:03 ET on 05/03/1999. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW1440, (CQN-NJ-PRINCETON-SOFTECH) Correcting fax number for Princeton Softech Inc. in release issued 5/3, which...
- Research articles 1999-05-04
- Insurance Department Will Hold Public Hearings on Proposed Consolidation of Highmark, Independence Blue Cross
- To: STATE EDITORSTo: STATE EDITORS
- Research articles 2007-12-21
- Insurance Department Receives Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Consolidation Filings
- To: STATE EDITORSTo: STATE EDITORS
- Research articles 2007-04-27
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- Blue Cross, Blue Shield Propose Rate Increase At Hearing In Central City, Pa.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Nov. 16--Some elderly and other subscribers would face steep increases in their insurance premiums if a rate-increase proposal by Independence Blue Cross and Pennsylvania Blue Shield is approved. Nov. 16--Some elderly and other subscribers would face steep increases in their insurance...
- Research articles 1997-11-16
- Blue Cross, Highmark paying agency's advisers
- A hearing on the proposed Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. merger took an unexpected twist in Harrisburg yesterday. Instead of focusing on the merger, which would create the largest health insurer in the state, it was all about how much the Insurance Department's consultants were being paid - and,...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- Highmark and Independence Blue Cross Withdraw Applications to Combine
- 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and PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross IBC announced today that they have withdrawn their applications to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department PID to combine the two companies.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...
- Research articles 2009-01-21
- Keep the Remaining Blue Cross Plans Non-Profits
- Michael Steinberg submits: The Wall Street Journal “Blue Cross Plans Feeling Pressure to Consolidate” reports that Pennsylvania’s two largest non-profit Blue Cross plans are seeking regulatory approval to merge and New Jersey’s largest health insurer filed an application to convert from non-profit to for-profit. At this point, Pittsburgh’s Highmark and...
- External links 2008-08-26
- 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
- Pa. insurance giants want to keep a secret
- The state's two largest health insurers have filed a forest of paperwork - nearly 30,000 pages of documentation as of Friday - in connection with their proposed merger.But Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. want Pennsylvania's Department of Insurance to keep key components of the merger confidential.Here are some details...
- Research articles 2007-05-06
- Pa. Senate confirms insurance commissioner
- In a move linked with the proposed merger of Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc., the Pennsylvania Senate voted yesterday to confirm Joel Scott Ario as the state's insurance commissioner. Gov. Rendell had nominated Ario in June 2007, but the Senate's Banking and Insurance Committee held up the nomination as...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Blues deal worries insurance brokers
- Some area health insurance brokers are pessimistic about what the proposed merger of Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. will mean for them and their customers.Brown & Brown Consulting, a Philadelphia-based employee-benefits firm, surveyed 84 brokers who help small businesses with fewer than 100 employees buy health insurance for their...
- Research articles 2007-04-06
- Insurance deal draws support
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-17
- Pa. insurance bill proceeds despite veto threat
- A broadened version of a bill that would bolster the regulation of mergers of health insurers moved ahead in the legislature last week, even though Gov. Rendell has threatened to veto it.The legislation has taken on urgency as Pennsylvania's Insurance Department must decide whether to approve the merger of Independence...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Highmark-Independence Merger Collapses Under Fear of Competition
- Highmark and Independence Blue Cross, two Blue health-insurance plans in Pennsylvania that have sought to merge for almost two years, called off the deal today for a seemingly quirky reason: The state insurance commissioner would have forced the combined company to give up either the Blue Cross or Blue Shield...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- HEALTH INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS.(Special Report)(directory)(Directory)
- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio 8333 Rockside Road, Suite 200 Cleveland 44839 800-551-3119 www.anthem.com Top executive: Joseph M. LaGuardia CIGNA HealthCare 5005 Rockside Road, Suite 700...
- Research articles 2006-09-04
- 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
- Health-insurance merger in the works?
- The boards of Independence Blue Cross, of Philadelphia, and Highmark Inc., of Pittsburgh, plan to meet separately Wednesday for a vote on merging the state's two largest health insurers."There's consensus to go forward," said Patrick J. Eiding, one of the board members of Independence Blue Cross.The two companies have talked...
- Research articles 2007-03-23
- Senators eye savings from Blues merger
- If Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. want their proposed merger to go through, they had better make sure that Pennsylvania lawmakers get a say in how the two nonprofit organizations spend any savings from the deal.That was the message delivered clearly yesterday to Kenneth R. Melani and Joseph A....
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- Top salaries key to approval of Blues merger
- The question from the Pennsylvania deputy insurance commissioner could not have been more detailed. The official, Stephen J. Johnson, demanded that the top executives of the state's two largest Blue Cross plans disclose every last nuance about their future pay as Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. pursue a merger....
- Research articles 2007-12-02
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