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Blue Shield of California is a mutual benefit corporation and health plan [6] [7] founded in 1939 by the California Medical Association. It is based in Oakland, California, and serves 4.5 million health plan members and more than 65,000 physicians across the state. Blue Shield of California was founded as a not-for-profit organization.
(Reuters) -Blue Shield of California plans to stop using most of CVS Health's pharmacy benefit management services and work with others, including Amazon.com and Mark Cuban's drug firm, in a bid ...
Blue Shield of California is shaking up the pharmacy landscape with a landmark deal to drastically reduce the price of a biosimilar alternative to AbbVie Inc.’s (NYSE:ABBV) Humira, one of the ...
Salesforce and Blue Shield of California have partnered to create an artificial intelligence-based system that should, they contend, make it easier for patients to get approval for care through ...
Blue Shield was developed by employers in lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest to provide medical care by paying monthly fees to medical service bureaus composed of groups of physicians. [9] [10] In 1939, the first official Blue Shield plan was founded in California. In 1948, the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans called ...
Kaiser Permanente had about 50% of the market, followed by Blue Shield of California, Anthem Blue Cross, and Health Net (a subsidiary of Centene). [9] L.A. Care was among the top six in 2015, and the largest county-based insurer. [9] As of 2017, UnitedHealthcare was sixth-largest. [10]
Blue Cross Blue Shield payments to about 6 million people are set to go out more than two years after the health insurer reached a $2.67 billion settlement with subscribers.
Covered California is the health insurance marketplace in the U.S. state of California established under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The exchange enables eligible individuals and small businesses to purchase private health insurance coverage at federally subsidized rates.