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Blue Shield Tops Covered CA Enrollments

California Healthline reports that Blue Shield of California has the highest share of enrollees in Covered California Health Benefits Exchan...

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Blue Shield CA To Issue One-Time Refund on Grandfathered IFP Plans in California

Received notice from Blue Shield that they will be issuing a one-time premium refund to approximately 31,500 grandfathered individual & ...

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Data breach at Premera Blue Cross in the Pacific Northwest

On March 17, 2015, Premera Blue Cross announced that it was the target of a cyber attack that affected as many as 11 million people. This...

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CA Franchise Tax Board Revokes Blue Shield's Tax Exempt Status

The California Franchise Tax Board has revoked the State Tax Exempt Status of Blue Shield of California. As a result, Blue Shield may be r...

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Blue Shield CA Extends Medicare Supplement Year Round SEP to 2016

Blue Shield of California has announced that they will be extending the year round SEP for Medicare Supplements until June 30, 2016. This SE...

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Blue Shield PPO Contracts With Cedars-Sinai

Effective March 1, 2015, Blue Shield of California (and Blue Shield Life & Health) will be contracted with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center f...

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Blue Shield Signs New 2-Year Sutter Contact!

Blue Shield announced this morning that they have completed a new 2-Year contact with Sutter. Health. The Contact will go into force on Feb...

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Blue Shield CA Grandfathered IFP Rate Change for 2015

Blue Shield of California has announced a rate increase for all grandfathered indivdiual &family health plans (including HIPAA plans). T...

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Got Coverage? I Dunno!

Since my last blog post in November we have had a whirlwind of ca-razy and of course the holidays. I hope that everyone had a safe and enjo...

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Anthem Blue Cross L & H Extends Some Members Non-Grandfathered Plan To 2/28/14

Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced this morning that Anthem Blue Cross Life & Health will be offering an extension of non-grand...

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Electing Blue Shield Life & Health PPO Extension Requirement

Just FYI, if you are currently covered on a non-grandfathered Blue Shield Life & Health PPO plan and have received the letter offering t...

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EPO, PPO How Does It Work?

Both Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are offering EPO or PPO plans in select areas of California. For example, in LA and O...

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Blue Shield CA and Health Net CA Extend Non-Grandfathered Until March 31, 2014

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced this morning that he has received agreement from Blue Shield Life and health to exten...

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Why CA Non-Grandfathered Plans Are Being Cancelled

The Covered CA health plan solicitation requires all health Insurers who participate in the Covered California Individual Exchange to "...

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Covered California SHOP Small Group Plans Announced

Today Covered California released a list of carriers who will offer plans inside of the SHOP Small Group Health Exchange beginning in Januar...

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Anthem Blue Cross Spurns CA SHOP Exchange

Anthem Blue Cross (Blue Cross of California) announced today that the carrier will not participate in the Covered California SHOP (Small Bu...

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Healthcare Plan Renewal Loophole Divides CA Insurers

Interesting article in today's LA TImes regarding whether or not the state will allow any carrier selling California individual & f...

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Covered California Announces Exchange Health Carriers

This morning, Peter Lee announced the insurance carriers selected to provide coverage to California residents in the California Health Benef...

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Blue Shield CA To Return $50 Million In Premium Credit

Blue Shield of California has announced that the insurer will return $50 million in premium credits for the 2012 2% Pledge. From the Blue ...

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Blue Shield CA Increase on IFP Rates 3/1/13

Blue Shield of California has announced a rate increase on their individual & family health plans for March 1, 2012. Rate increases on...