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Blue Cross Blue Shield To Put The Squeeze On Direct Payers

4 Comments / Economic crisis, health care / By Beth Comery / 12/30/2011 / Blue Cross Blue Shield, health insurance

Happy New Year direct payers, some of you can look forward to double-digit rate hikes in 2012. Once again Blue Cross Blue Shield direct payers (who have no other choice in Rhode Island) are being asked to supplement the benefits afforded to the groups with bargaining power and clout. According to an article on A-2 …

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Less Care + Higher Costs = Big Profits For Insurers

1 Comment / health care, insurance / By Beth Comery / 05/20/2011 / Blue Cross Blue Shield, health care, UnitedHealth

On May 14th Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts (Chairwoman of the Rhode Island Healthcare Reform Commission) wrote a column for the Providence Journal trying to explain how millions of dollars in federal grants resulting from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 has benefited Rhode Islanders so far. Four days later the Journal ran the column …

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