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Pennsylvania Blues face trade practices investigation
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has announced that it's turning a beady eye on the state's four Blue Cross & Blue Shield Insurance companies, investigating whether the quartet have engaged... Read more...
PA Blues call off long-awaited merger
Unhappy with the terms state regulators were poised to impose, two of Pennsylvania's largest Blue plans have called off their plan to merge after more than a year of discussions. Highmark and... Read more...
Penn. insurance officials set course for Blues merger
While they're not ready to announce terms, the officials in charge of setting rules for the merger between state Blue plans--Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc.--have tipped their hand. The... Read more...
Lawmakers largely oppose PA Blues merger
Pennsylvania commissioner Joel Ario gets to make the final decision on the proposed merger between Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc.--but the state's lawmakers are not shying away from giving... Read more...
PA Blues merger bad idea, plan exec says
As many FierceHealthcare readers know, Pennsylvania's two biggest Blue Cross plans--Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia and Highmark Inc. of Pittsburgh-- have proposed to merge. Right now, the... Read more...
Questions raised on PA Blues merger
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has released two reports analyzing the potential impact of the proposed merger between Highmark and Independence Blue Cross, which have raised some concerns... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: PA insurers face merger scrutiny
For many months now, Pennsylvania health plans Independence Blue Cross and Highmark have been waiting for the chance to defend their planned merger--and now, at long last, they've gotten their... Read more...
PA health plans pay PCPs to track care
A group of Pennsylvania health plans have come together to create a program paying family doctors and other caregivers to manage patient care more closely. Among other things, the program will make... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: PA schedules hearings on Independence/Highmark merger; Medical college group urges caution with pharma tech freebie
> More than a year after the deal was proposed, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has (finally) scheduled hearings to review public comments on the proposed merger of Independence Blue Cross... Read more...
