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...Serkan Kutan, the former chief technology officer for digital health platform ZocDoc, is the CTO of Haven, and Dana Safran, from insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield, is head of measurement....
...Blue Shield state health plans, which negotiate via Prime Therapeutics....
...— Destra’s beneficiaries are Freestone, the insurer that went into liquidation after Burns went into Bellevue, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, which used to own Companion....
...Of the big five, Anthem is most exposed to the Obamacare exchanges; the insurer holds licences for the popular Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in several states....
...Instead, Cigna blamed Anthem for pursuing a “unilateral strategy” to bolster its Blue Cross Blue Shield network, which it said ultimately persuaded the judge that the deal would limit competition....
...A third brief, from Ikea, Mars, Adobe and Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance, argued that their businesses would be harmed if emissions from power generation in the US were not cut....
...There is stiff competition in many states from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a federation of 36 separate insurers that covers about 30 per cent of Americans....
...That is because when insurance companies such as WellPoint and Blue Cross Blue Shield decided to participate in the new statewide exchanges, they proposed premiums based on assumptions that other policies...
...Other leading insurers including WellPoint and Blue Cross Blue Shield did not comment on Monday....
...She had previously been president and chief executive of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (WellPoint divisions), where she started out with the company in 1999 as its general counsel....
...Competition authorities at the Department of Justice said a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan had abandoned its proposed takeover of Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan after the DoJ told...
...Express Scripts will pay $3.28bn in cash, with the rest to be paid in stock, to WellPoint, a top US health insurer that provides benefits under the Blue Cross Blue Shield brand....
...Express Scripts will pay $3.28bn in cash, with the rest of the price paid in stock, to WellPoint, a top US health insurer that provides benefits under the Blue Cross Blue Shield brand....
...WellPoint, which has 35m medical members and provides insurance under the Blue Cross Blue Shield brand, says its PBM business, which includes NextRx, is the fourth-largest in the US....
...“They are pretty good about not rubbing it in and we do get treated like peers,” adds Mr Schmitz, who took the post in 2003 after running funds for Illinois and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the health insurer...
...By acquiring WellChoice, the parent of the powerful Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield brand, WellPoint will be placing itself in direct competition with UnitedHealth in the New York market, which can be exceptionally...
...and break up, exploiting the unwinding of the Deutschland AG system of friendly cross-shareholdings....
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