Summary
The BlueCross and BlueShield association is a national organization of 39 independent, regionally-based and locally-owned health insurance companies. In the Mid-Atlantic, the health care provider is known as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which is based in Owings Mills, Md., in Baltimore County. CareFirst is the largest health insurance provider in the region and employs more than 5,400. Collectively, the BlueCross and BlueShield health system provides coverage to more than 99 million people nationwide, or more than one in three Americans. It ranks among the 20 largest employers in the United States.
The BlueCross and BlueShield association is a national organization of 39 independent, regionally-based and locally-owned health insurance companies. In the Mid-Atlantic, the health care provider is known as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which is based in Owings Mills, Md., in Baltimore County. CareFirst is the largest health insurance provider in the region and employs more than 5,400. Collectively, the BlueCross and BlueShield health system provides coverage to more than 99 million people nationwide, or more than one in three Americans. It ranks among the 20 largest employers in the United States.
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The $9 million pay cut
Former CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Chief Executive Officer William L. Jews may be two years gone from his old job, but he's clearly not been forgotten, at least not by Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler. This week, Mr. Tyler ruled that Mr....Tags: Health Treatments, Insurance, Labor Legislation, Private Health Care, Government Health Care
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Ex-CareFirst CEO's $18M severance package halved
Sun reportersWilliam L. Jews is entitled to only half of his $18 million severance package from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland's top insurance regulator said Monday in a ruling that accuses the former chief executive of abandoning the insurer's nonprofit...Tags: Retirement, Corporate Officers, Wages and Pensions, Insurance, CEO Pay
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Ex-CEO's severance cut
Sun reportersWilliam L. Jews is entitled to only half of his $18 million severance package from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland's top insurance regulator said yesterday in a ruling that accuses the former chief executive of abandoning the insurer's...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Wellpoint Health Networks Incorporated, CEO Pay, Private Health Care, Laws
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Leasing becomes tough sell
Sun ReporterAs businesses have delayed or halted expansion plans, office landlords are going to great lengths to get commercial brokers to at least visit their buildings, even without tenants in tow. Brokers who represent potential tenants are being paid cash just...Tags: Government, Crossroads, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Office and Retail Spaces, Rental Service
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GM's pain hits retirees
Sun ReporterWhen Charles Miller went to work at General Motors' Broening Highway plant in 1954, he was attracted to the company by its reputation for good salaries and stellar benefits. He stayed for 31 years. Since he retired from his job as a data processor in...Tags: Glen Burnie, Automotive Equipment, Medicare, Pension and Welfare, Employees
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2 Owings Mills buildings sold
Two Owings Mills office buildings used as headquarters for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield have been sold for about $95 million to investment funds managed by Boston-based Eaton Vance Management. The two-building, 390,000-square-foot complex on Mill Run...Tags: Eaton Vance Corporation
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June E. Fisher
June E. Fisher, a retired CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield worker and a homemaker, died Sunday of cancer at Carroll Hospice's Dove House in Westminster. The longtime Woodlawn resident was 76. June E. Healey was born and raised in Baltimore. She was a...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Sykesville, Death and Dying
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Medicaid reaches more
Sun reporterAs one of thousands of uninsured Marylanders, Adamantious Boulis put off trips to the doctor to treat his diabetes and colon cancer because he knew he wouldn't be able to pay the medical bills. Now he is faced with more medical problems - yesterday, he...Tags: Medicaid, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Prescription Drugs, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals
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Where the money isn't
Sun reporterDr. Ronald Sroka has been a family care physician in the same Crofton location for 30 years, just six miles from where he grew up. He's the president-elect of the Maryland State Medical Society, he was voted favorite physician last year in the local...Tags: Government, George Bush, Health Organizations, American Medical Association, Medicare
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Regulation: Blues pay hearing resumes next week
A hearing to examine whether the former chief executive of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield was awarded an excessively large retirement and severance package will resume next Friday, Maryland's insurance commissioner ruled yesterday. Lawyers for CareFirst...Tags: Insurance
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