Download or read book The Blues written by Robert Maris Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system, America's largest and oldest health insurer, from its beginnings to the 1990s. It draws on company archives and shows how its management has pursued the goal of health care coverage over seven decades of social and economic change.

Download or read book Blue Cross and Blue Shield written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Blue Cross & Blue Shield plans to: (1) determine the extent of financial weakness among the Blue plans; (2) identify factors that contribute to plans' weak financial conditions; & (3) determine the measures taken by the plans, the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association (BC & BSA), & states to address plan weaknesses. Also describes the oversight & other roles played by the BC & BSA & discusses the implications of health care reform on Blues plans. Charts & tables.

Download or read book Proposals for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Service Inc as Approved August 20 1948 for Submission to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans written by American Hospital Association. Blue Cross Commission and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Technology Assessment Directory written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a single reference identifies medical technology assessment programs. A valuable guide to the field, this directory contains more than 60 profiles of programs that conduct and report on medical technology assessments. Each profile includes a listing of report citations for that program, and all the reports are indexed under major subject headings. Also included is a cross-listing of technology assessment report citations arranged by type of technology headings, brief descriptions of approximately 70 information sources of potential interest to technology assessors, and addresses and descriptions of 70 organizations with memberships, activities, publications, and other functions relevant to the medical technology assessment community.

Download or read book The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana Story written by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Increase in Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance Premiums written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Retirement, Insurance, and Health Benefits and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross and Blue Shield written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross and Blue Shield Fact Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Service Center written by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans written by Robert D. Eilers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan Fact Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin written by Thomas Lee Wenck and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Is Blue Cross blue Shield a Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan written by Fanny Marchese and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Insurance written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO compared the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association health plans' coverage availability for high-risk persons with that of for-profit insurance plans to determine if the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans' tax-exempt status is warranted. GAO found that: (1) for 67 percent of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans' high-risk cases, there was at least one commercial health plan alternative, but all of the commercial insurers rejected the remaining cases; (2) the commercial insurers and three of the six Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans offered high-risk individuals less comprehensive coverage than other individuals; (3) both Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the commercial insurers experience-rate their large group coverage, which constitutes the majority of their business; (4) the Blue Cross/Blue Shield pricing methods for high-risk individuals resemble those commercial insurers use; (5) Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans operate for-profit businesses on which they pay taxes; and (6) the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans varied significantly among themselves in underwriting practices. GAO also found that taxing the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans: (1) should not affect those who are members of large, employer-paid groups; and (2) could adversely affect the individual and small-group markets, particularly those considered to be high-risk, because commercial firms would not underwrite them. GAO was unable to determine the overall effect that changes in the tax-exempt status would have on the availability and affordability of health insurance to high-risk individuals and groups because of a lack of data.

Download or read book 2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Benefit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Cross and Other Private Health Insurance for the Elderly written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Health Care Blues written by Irwin Miller and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making novel use of the sociology of organizations and pragmatic philosophy, Irwin Miller sheds new light on the nature and evolution of both the Blues and American health care voluntarism and reform. He shows how Walter McNerney, one of the primary health policy shapers over the past forty years, used ideological and utopian rhetoric to help move Blue Cross into HMO development. This case study of institutional and leadership behavior uses firsthand interviews, archival documents, oral histories, and other materials to present an unusually concrete and readable narrative account as to how health care leaders engage in creative institution building, or health care reform.