Independence Blue Cross, Crozer-Keystone talks stall (BizJournals)
Crozer-Keystone Health System, the largest health-care provider in Delaware County, Pa., and Independence Blue Cross, the region's largest health insurer, have reached an impasse on negotiations for a new contract.

Local doctors challenge Blue Cross practices (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Complaints that Blue Cross of California is raising patient premiums while cutting reimbursements to physicians will be reviewed by state regulators at a public hearing next month in Los Angeles. Local physicians are especially concerned because Blue Cross has more than half the market in San Luis Obispo County. It is California s largest health insurer. Joseph Bettencourt, a family practice ...

Blue Cross cuts causing pain (Los Angeles Times)
Doctors object to lower reimbursements. The insurer says new rates will pay physicians at 'sustainable levels.' Blue Cross of California's latest antidote to rising healthcare costs isn't going down very well with physicians.

Excellus Blue Cross-Blue Shield move to DeWitt (News 10 Now Syracuse)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- For months, Syracuse officials have scrambled to try to keep Excellus Blue Cross-Blue Shield from shifting its headquarters operation and its 800 jobs to a suburban site. Now, there is word the city has lost that struggle.