Premera Blue Cross Introduces Enhanced Disease Management Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash.----Based on research demonstrating that quicker contact equals better health and lower costs, Premera Blue Cross announced today a significant enhancement of its disease management program that reduces the time needed to identify members who can benefit from disease management from an industry average of 120 days down to a range of 10-14 days for certain conditions.

Smith: Color them greedy: Condell/Blue Cross (Lake County News Sun)
Dear Scott : We've heard that because of a dispute between Condell Medical Center in Libertyville and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois that we are no longer covered at Condell. As an older couple, we're very much concerned because Condell is the closest hospital to where we live. Can you explain what's going on and what our alternatives are?

Law puts Blue Cross on offensive (Boston Globe)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' lucrative business of selling health insurance to municipalities and unions is under attack since a law was enacted in June allowing cities and towns to join the health insurance plan for state employees.

Blue Cross now a youth sports sponsor (The Charlotte Observer)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has become the official sponsor of the Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation Department Youth Athletics program, pledging $180,000 over the next three years to the county. The department will use the money, to be paid in annual installments, to pay for improvements to athletic fields and supporting equipment and buildings, said department Director Jim ...