Author: Robert Maris Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875802244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
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.
The Blues
Health Insurance
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788111495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788111495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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.
Health Insurance Plans Other Than Blue Cross Or Blue Shield Plans Or Insurance Companies, 1970 Survey
Author: Louis S. Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan Fact Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Health Insurance
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289010270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289010270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
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.
Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans
Author: Robert D. Eilers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
How Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plans Meet the Health Care Needs of Working Men and Women and Their Families
Author: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Increase in Blue Cross-Blue Shield Health Insurance Premiums
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Retirement, Insurance, and Health Benefits
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Health Insurance Plans Other than Blue Cross or Blue Shield Plans or Insurance Companies 1970 Survey
Author: Louis S. Reed with the assistance of Maureen Dwyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description