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5 Jul 2014, 8:41 am
One recent example involves a series of 10 lawsuits filed by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 10:31 am by Ann Marie Marciarille
  An earlier attempted sale to a Boston-based for-profit chain fell through in the face of failed negotiations with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 7:31 am by Breakstone, White & Gluck
Golchin had a health insurance policy with Blue Cross Blue Shield, which paid her medical bills (expenses totaled $100,883, but Blue Cross actually paid $32,033). [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 3:02 pm
With this penalty, WellPoint joins the ranks of CVS Pharmacy, Alaska Department of Health and Human Services, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, all of whom have paid penalties over $1.5 million to HHS for HIPAA privacy and security violations since 2009. [read post]
14 Nov 2012, 2:02 pm by David Harlow
 We’re ahead of the curve on these issues in Massachusetts, with a law passed this summer that will move us into ACOs for all -- not just Medicare beneficiaries -- and away from fee-for-service medicine, and a local Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan known as the Alternative Quality Contract that has been working on this basis -- budgeted caps with quality kickers -- for several years already. [read post]
24 Oct 2012, 11:39 am by David Harlow
The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association representatives all said the things you might expect them to say (check out the tweetstream). [read post]
12 Oct 2012, 8:41 pm
  Major dental insurance carriers include: Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Delta Dental and Altus. [read post]
5 Oct 2012, 8:48 am
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc., 451 Mass. 389 (2008), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that when the health insurance policy specifically defers payment to Med Pay coverage, then, after the initial $2,000.00 in PIP is exhausted, instead of your medical bills being submitted to your health insurance provider, Med Pay will kick in first and pay your medical bills. [read post]
21 Sep 2012, 12:30 am by Monique Altheim
PCI Security Standards Council Issues Best Practices for Mobile Payment Acceptance Security http://t.co/ysSqm0Zp # Blue Cross Blue Shield discloses employee data breach http://t.co/CAf0fASH # NLRB Invalidates Costco’s Social Media Policy – As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog, on S… http://t.co/nro6fMZ2 # Facing Fines for Contempt, Twitter Produces Defendant’s Tweets http://t.co/fVPy4wwx # 2 charged with… [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 8:50 am by David Harlow
The only other insurance plan on offer statewide is Blue Cross Blue Shield, so if the CO-OP can build or rent a provider network quickly, and differentiate itself in the various markets statewide, it has the potential to become a real powerhouse. [read post]
10 May 2012, 1:27 pm
Health Business Blog's David Williams, a longtime HWR contributor and host, scores an interview with the CEO of Taxachusetts  Massachusetts Blue Cross/Blue Shield. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 4:17 am by David Harlow
  I’d like to get your thoughts on the Pioneer ACO structure and how that relates to your present activities, or activities over the past year or so under the alternative quality contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 1:36 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy Jay McQuaide, the Vice-President of Corporate Communications for Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield, recently sent a stiff complaint to local doctors who published a study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reporting how doctors on its mental health panel responded (or, more specifically, failed to respond) to calls from patients needing immediate appointments for treatment of depression. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 11:30 pm by David Harlow
  (Consider the Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield ACQ (alternative quality contract) experience.) [read post]