Highlights
The BlueCross and BlueShield association is a national organization of 39 independent, regionally-based and locally-owned health insurance companies. In the Mid-Atlantic, the health care provider is known as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which is based in Owings Mills, Md., in Baltimore County. CareFirst is the largest health insurance provider in the region and employs more than 5,400. Collectively, the BlueCross and BlueShield health system provides coverage to more than 99 million people nationwide, or more than one in three Americans. It ranks among the 20 largest employers in the United States.
The BlueCross and BlueShield association is a national organization of 39 independent, regionally-based and locally-owned health insurance companies. In the Mid-Atlantic, the health care provider is known as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which is based in Owings Mills, Md., in Baltimore County. CareFirst is the largest health insurance provider in the region and employs more than 5,400. Collectively, the BlueCross and BlueShield health system provides coverage to more than 99 million people nationwide, or more than one in three Americans. It ranks among the 20 largest employers in the United States.
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State medical society warns against cuts
The Associated PressMaryland's largest nonprofit health care insurer has informed doctors it will cut reimbursement fees, beginning in 2009. The decision by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has a physicians' group worried that doctors will either leave the insurance system or...Tags: Insurance, Maryland, Steve Johnson, Healthcare Provider
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Psychiatric care delay in spotlight
The Maryland Insurance Administration is investigating complaints that some psychiatric patients have been forced to wait hours - in some cases, several days - to be hospitalized because their insurance companies have not responded quickly when...Tags: Emergency Planning, National Government, Government, Randallstown, Illnesses
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Health care tab part of Clinton camp's $8M debt
kristen.daum@newsday.comWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton promotes health care as a top focus of her presidential bid, but her campaign's accountants aren't staying on message. The campaign reported nearly $300,000 worth of unpaid health insurance bills for campaign...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Health Treatments, Government Health Care, Private Health Care, New York
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Ex-CEO of CareFirst testifies
Sun reporterCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's former chief executive defended his $17.65 million retirement and severance pay yesterday, and denied accusations by regulators that his sole focus as CEO was boosting profits. William L. Jews, who became a lightning...Tags: Employment, Music, Missing in Action, Retirement, Corporate Officers
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The issues
BUDGETAlthough lawmakers spent 21 grueling days in November raising taxes by $1.3 billion and ordering up hundreds of millions in spending cuts, fiscal issues again permeated much of the debate in Annapolis, with revenue shortfalls and the repeal of the...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Heavy Engineering, Executive Branch, Schools, Family
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Carefirst timeline
1993 -- William L. Jews, a former hospital executive, takes over Blue Cross of Maryland in 1993, when it was on the brink of insolvency. He is credited with stabilizing its finances. 1995 -- Blue Cross makes its first effort to reorganize and create a...Tags: Delaware, Insurance, California, Maryland, Bankruptcy
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Bromwell was among state's most powerful
Sun ReporterIn Annapolis, Thomas L. Bromwell invariably sported a huge gold ring he described as "big and gaudy and loud" - much like himself. A big man with a thick Bawlamer accent, the former tavern owner from Perry Hall was a colorful and imposing figure during...Tags: Michael E Busch, Thomas L Bromwell, Health Treatments, Government Health Care, Private Health Care
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Salary comparisons difficult to make for CareFirst's chief
Sun StaffCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a nonprofit - except that it pays taxes unlike a charity, competes with for-profit insurers, tried to convert to a for-profit itself and is currently promoting its charitable efforts to stave off critics. Got that? If...Tags: Health Treatments, Wages and Pensions, Owings Mills, Government Health Care, Insurance
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Housing prices in region rose 16.4% in May
Sun StaffHome prices in the Baltimore region rose more than 16 percent in May compared with a year earlier, showing continued strength in a housing market that keeps defying predictions of a slowdown. Home sellers routinely are getting multiple offers above the...Tags: Mortgages, Federal Reserve, Money and Monetary Policy, Contracts, Sales
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Physicians urge governor not to veto malpractice bill
Sun StaffAfter fighting alongside Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. for malpractice reform, leaders of the state's doctors and hospitals stepped away from the governor yesterday, urging him not to veto the malpractice bill passed by the General Assembly last week....Tags: Medicaid, Executive Branch, National Government, Montgomery County (Maryland), Health Insurance
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Redmer lays HMO cost rise to Democrats
Sun StaffRebuffing partisan calls for his resignation, state Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer Jr. defended yesterday his handling of requests from insurers to pass on a recently approved 2 percent HMO tax to consumers, saying he is following the procedure...Tags: Michael E Busch, Executive Branch, Coventry Health Care Incorporated, National Government, Health Insurance
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Byron seeks to restore Assembly's faith in CareFirst
Sun StaffCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's new board chair promised Maryland lawmakers yesterday that she will work to restore their faith in the nonprofit insurer. "I'm committed to restoring the legislative trust that was there for so many years for this...Tags: Health Treatments, Government Health Care, Private Health Care, Corporate Officers, Annapolis
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