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According to Providence, the health care organization has seen a 26% increase in supply, drug and labor costs since 2019, which led to a net operating loss of about $1.2 billion in 2023.
Mayor David Cicilline was optimistic at the prospect of retaining the 1100 employees in the city adding to the "economy and add to the life and vitality of our city", while the state's governor, Donald Carcieri, worried about the impact a move to occupy such expensive real estate would have on the premiums for the insurer's customers, since the first priority of the Blue Cross & Blue Shield ...
Dec. 4—Starting Tuesday, Dec. 5, Providence Swedish will require masks in all areas where patient care is administered. In a Monday announcement, the health care provider announced that due to a ...
In 1999, Anthem acquired Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado and Nevada. The acquisitions made since 1996 added 850,000 policy holders. Among its customer base were 2.4 million PPO and 964,000 HMO enrollees. [20] In 2000, Anthem acquired Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine. [21]
Blue Shield was developed by employers in lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest to provide medical care by paying monthly fees to medical service bureaus composed of groups of physicians. [9] [10] In 1939, the first official Blue Shield plan was founded in California. In 1948, the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans called ...
Oct. 30—Pregnant women in rural areas could have increased access to care thanks to funding from a local health care organization. Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico is giving $2 million to 10 ...
Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield licensed health insurance company based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States. It sells health insurance plans under the Blue Cross license in Washington state except Clark County and under both of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licenses in Alaska .
The Providence site is the first sanctioned by the state and joins two other safe injection sites currently open in New York. Democratic Gov. Daniel McKee signed the measure into law in 2021 ...