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Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, is a member-owned health insurance company in the United States. HCSC was formerly known as Hospital Service Corporation and changed its name to Health Care Service Corporation in 1975. The company was founded in 1936 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with a network of ...
The PPS was established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as a result of the Social Security Amendments Act of 1983, specifically to address expensive hospital care. Regardless of services provided, payment was of an established fee. The idea was to encourage hospitals to lower their prices for expensive hospital care.
Health Care Service holds a license to provide Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance plans in five U.S. states. It employs more than 27,000 people and 18.6 million members.
During 2010, Health Care Service Corporation, the parent company of BCBS in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Montana and Illinois, nearly doubled its income to $1.09 billion in 2010, and began four years of billion-dollar profits. [14]
In 2006 the City of Chicago granted a building permit to Health Care Service Corporation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois to renovate the building upwards, which gave additional 24 stories and made the building 57 stories in total (3 floors below ground). [1]
PSS World Medical, Inc. was an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceutical related products to non-hospital healthcare providers. In 2008, the company celebrated its 25th year in business and was named to Forbes 400 Best Big Companies list for the second time.
Highmark is an American for-profit healthcare company and Integrated Delivery Network based in Pittsburgh. It is a large individual for-profit [ 3 ] health insurer in the United States, which operates several for-profit subsidiaries.
Partnership HealthPlan of California, is an independent, public/private organization serving over 950,000 Medi-Cal beneficiaries in 24 northern California counties: Butte County, Colusa County, Del Norte County, Humboldt County, Glenn County, Lake County, Lassen County, Marin County, Mendocino County, Modoc County, Napa County, Nevada County, Placer County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Sierra ...