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Cambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit health care company based in Portland, Oregon. [2] It is the parent company of Regence, a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association operating in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Washington; Asuris Northwest Health; BridgeSpan Health; and LifeMap.
Until the middle of 2015 insured individuals paid their premiums to the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, since then payments are made directly to the insurance company. The Exchange is responsible for the creation of Washington Healthplanfinder, the online portal to facilitate the shopping and enrolling in health and dental insurance.
Founded in 1948, [26] Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield (ABCBS) [27] is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and the largest healthcare provider in the state. [28] It donated $1.98 million to The Walton College of Business toward founding its Robert L. Shoptaw Master of Healthcare Business Analytics Program. [ 29 ]
Premera was founded as Washington Hospital Service in 1933, [3] and began operating in Alaska in 1957. In 1969, the company's name was changed to Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska. [3] In June 1998, Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska merged with Spokane's Medical Service Corporation under the name Premera Blue Cross. [4]
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In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship.In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail.
Most provider markets (especially hospitals) are also highly concentrated—roughly 80%, according to criteria established by the FTC and Department of Justice [137] —so insurers usually have little choice about which providers to include in their networks, and consequently little leverage to control the prices they pay. Large insurers ...
Enli Health Intelligence was a privately held software company based in Beaverton, Oregon, and previously in Hillsboro, Oregon.Founded in 2001 as Kryptiq Corporation, the company specialized in electronic medical records and secure communications between physicians and patients.