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NEWS ABOUT: Blue Cross

Blue Cross stories: 3 news summaries

 At the Mall? Pick Up 
 Some Health Care 

Blue Cross sells coverage from a Fla. storefront

Mar 5, 09 11:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The nation's largest health provider is trying a new tack: selling insurance from a stripmall storefront. The suburban Florida Blue Cross shop hopes to attract some of the state's 4 million uninsured residents, and it's part of an "overall retail transformation" of the industry, a spokesman tells NPR. Consumers... More »

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Florida • health care • health care industry • uninsured • Blue Cross • Bill Maher Grid

US Insurers Warming to Medical Tourism

Sending patients to India, elsewhere could save $20B a year

Jun 30, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re in need of high-priced surgery, your insurance company might have a plane ticket for you. Insurers are starting to warm to “medical tourism” for the same reason uninsured Americans are: Surgery is significantly cheaper overseas. At least 150,000 Americans go abroad for medical procedures every... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Aetna • Cigna • health insurers • Blue Cross • medical tourism

States Push to Restrain Insurers

Legislators see rise in unfair cancellations
of individual plans

Feb 21, 08 5:10 PM CST
(Newser) - As more Americans buy individual health insurance, states are acting to make sure insurers don’t cancel the plans without fair cause, USA Today reports. Plans can be canceled if applicants misreport their medical history, whether accidentally or on purpose. But amid complaints that companies are cutting the plans... More »

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health care industry • insurance • state legislature • state governments • health insurers • Blue Cross • health care cancellations • insurance fraud

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