The Blue Cross was considering closing it until a public outcry made it abandon those plans in 2010.
If planning permission is granted, the Blue Cross will then buy the land and then continue fund raising.
The Blue Cross Sale, starting on Saturday, covers a range of lines, from CDs to books and technology products.
"Everybody is using these databases to sell you stuff, " says Daryl Wansink, director of health economics for the Blue Cross unit.
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Steve is joined by Rod Collins, the former chief operating executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP).
Guertin's group designs new health insurance products and related marketing campaigns, sold under the Blue Cross Blue Shield umbrella to corporations and individuals in 14 states.
Therefore, insurers like the Blue Cross Blue Shields of the world will most likely have to ask HHS for more flexibility, and perhaps assistance during the transition period.
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"We're hoping employers are willing to try more new things, " says Dr. Allan Korn, senior vice president and chief medical officer for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
And in Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan there is trying to convert to a mutual plan from nonprofit in what many observers see as a move that will not only allow them to more easily conduct business and grow through future acquisitions.
The road will cross a small stream and continue parallel to the stream for some time before the first blue cross appears on the side barrier of a small cement bridge.
My question is, are the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield MA and BCBSNE Foundation profiting from the mandated MA Healthcare and are they in the same club?
Across the country, Blue Cross plans are often leaders in their markets in the provision of individual benefits as well as small group plans for small and medium-sized businesses as they compete with the likes of UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET) and Humana (HUM) for these new customers.
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Because, if they are selling me the same policy I purchase from California Blue Cross, they are going to have to charge me pretty much the same thing I pay to California Blue Cross.
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The number of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans tends to consolidate in waves with nearly 130 plans that did business in the mid-1970s, falling to less than 60 by the end of the 1990s to 38 independently operated Blues plans today, according to the trade group that represents them.
John Dingell and Sander Levin, both Michigan Democrats, asked the chief executive of the state's Blue Cross affiliate to provide details about the company's recently approved premium hikes and its top executives' pay.
Some Blues plans like Blue Cross of California, amid financial problems, became for-profit and took to the public markets in the 1990s, creating today what is known as Wellpoint (WLP), which operates plans under the Blues or Anthem Blue Cross brands in more than a dozen states.
The trail's blue cross markings, some of them quite faded, do not actually begin until almost 2km outside the village.
When Massachusetts became a mandatory insurance state, the caterer began offering Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO.
Although Gordian had only purchased a single Web program from eDoc4u, Smith designed a customized program with wider capabilities for Blue Cross Blue Shield, anticipating that the larger company could afford and would need more services.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois squeaked out the top spot for health insurance satisfaction.
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Worse, Smith wasn't able to meet with anyone from Blue Cross Blue Shield until nine months after the merger.
It is part of a broader experiment with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the insurer that employs Ms Duni.
But the sizzle can enliven its musty mainline business of running computer systems, call centers and data-entry operations for the likes of ChevronTexaco and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
For decades, the number of independently operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans has fallen through consolidation to compete with rivals like Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) that have grown commercial business largely through acquisition.
The Boones were fortunate that Vince's employer's policy with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield picked up the cost of the transplant.
Doug Bartel, with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, says the marketing plan for retail health coverage is not that different from cell phones.
When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.
Its directors and advisers hail from tech giants such as Texas Instruments, Blue Cross Blue Shield and several major research hospitals in the region.
And Blue Cross is usually the low-cost provider in every market.
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And Gruber never explained that these were base rates and did not take into account the uplift for age, geography, occupation and whatever else the Department of Insurance would let Blue Cross and Tufts get away with.
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