Landmark, Blue Cross openness fizzles in accord (The Woonsocket Call)
WOONSOCKET - When Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Landmark Medical Center were battling it out during negotiations for a new contract, no one on either side of the bargaining table needed any coaxing to express their views on what was widely considered to be a highly charged issue.

Golf notebook: Blue Cross team claims Waterford Cup (San Antonio Express News)
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas team of Jeff Jacobi, Pat McMahan, John Test and Bryant Hamstra won the traveling Waterford Cup at the third annual Merrill Lynch Corporate Challenge Cup at the Resort Course at La Cantera on Monday.

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