Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Hires Tina Trout as New Director, Quality Improvement
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) is pleased to welcome Tina Trout as director, quality improvement, accreditation and program development. In her new role at BCBSAZ, Trout will be responsible for URAC Accreditation, HEDIS and will be a resource for organization-wide quality improvement activities. She has extensive experience in health care and quality ...

Anthem Blue Cross reduces rate increases
Anthem Blue Cross plans to raise rates for more than 500,000 individual policyholders in California 9.1% on July 1, down from 16.4%, state officials say. In addition, 80,000 members would see rate cuts. California health insurer Anthem Blue Cross, scaling back rate increases for the second time in less than a year, has agreed to cut nearly in half average increases for more than 500,000 ...