As deadline looms, Blue Cross offers to extend John Muir deal (Contra Costa Times)
Blue Cross officials on Thursday proposed a one-month extension of a contract it has with the John Muir hospitals in Concord and Walnut Creek, but John Muir Health did not immediately respond to the proposal.

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Product Lines Ranked Among 'America's Best Health Plans'(R) (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Three of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield's products offered through its subsidiary, Keystone Health Plan West, are among "America's Best Health Plans," according to U.S. News & World Report/National Committee for Quality Assurance America's Best Health Plans 2006.

Blue Cross fined for refusing quotes (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Georgia's largest health insurer has drawn a $600,000 state fine for violations that include refusing to offer insurance price quotes to some small businesses. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia did not admit to the allegations but agreed to pay the fine, levied by Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine. The amount is among the state's largest financial penalties ever for an insurance law