Blue Cross to Refund Nonsmoking Policyholders Who Inadvertently Paid Tobacco-User Rates (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has announced a new policy to issue refunds to nonsmoking individual policyholders who, although eligible, have not been paying tobacco-free premium rates.

Blue Cross considering aid to General (Times Leader)
WILKES-BARRE Right now Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is only evaluating a request for money for Wilkes-Barre General Hospital s $100 million expansion plans.

VeriChip Corporation's VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System Selected by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.----July 19, 2006--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital , announced today that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health insurer in the state, has agreed to a two-year pilot program of VeriChip's VeriMed Patient Identification System in conjunction with Hackensack University Medical Center and its physicians.