Reach 19 Blue Cross Blue Shield CEOs
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Yes! Thank you! For over a year now I've been having to deal with BCBS over lab tests that BCBS said were "duplicates" and failed to pay. It's on now.
@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Why of course - it's really Universal (small voice) basic (/small voice) healthcare.
My provincial "free" plan covers doctors visits, treatment if hospitalized (including ward costs and a vast majority of treatments and drugs while inside.) It also allows for limited access to secondary treatments (ie physio) but the waiting list for free treatment can be quite long.
Example: my spouse fell had hurt his knee while on the job. He's talked to a nurse via a health call centre, visited his doctor and has an MRI scheduled - none of which will cost him a penny.
My private plan, the premiums of which are largely paid by my employer, covers a good percentage of out-of-hospital costs (drugs, vision, private physio, etc) for myself, my spouse and other dependents (if they were any) If my spouse need physio, this plan will cover about 80% of the cost to a yearly max.
Still, if I lost the job tomorrow, the provincial plan is a good support system - you'll never find us sitting in Admitting with an Admin demanding to know how we'll pay before we're treated. (But they do get tetchy if you don't bring your provincial health card with you!)
Alas, no BCBS of Georgia contact info and they're the idiots who mucked up and sent out the wrong EOBs a few weeks ago. I think I'm still screwed.
Oh no! Please harass the CEOs and not their assistants. Their assistants probably hate them just as much as you do.
17 CEOs? This is one company that could benefit from optimizing their operations through consolidation
@CrazyMann: BCBS is a federation of 39 different independent insurance companies, hence the proliferation of CEOs.
@BrutallyHonestBabes: It's not a vendetta against the CEOs, though, it's an attempt to get somebody working at the company to work with the consumer. The assistants are working for the company too.
This should work especially well, since so many of the BCBS companies have outsourced their claims processing. This will give the executives the chance to bang on their service providers for damaging the reputation of BCBS.
@Ben Popken: This is exactly why many of us were calling for them to be broken out during the Worst Company competition, but it was never mentioned by the editorial staff (that I saw).
Anyone have contact information for Anthem BCBS?
I could really use the Georgia one too! This just happened today!
I find it interesting that the president of BCBSGA contributes to John McCain. Must be afraid of Universal Healthcare. [fundrace.huffingtonpost.com]
It wouldn't make sense to me to be "afraid of Universal Healthcare" when you have the power to offer it and profit from it.
I still don;t get why an insurance company hasn't offered up a plan to cover ALL Americans on a sliding scale (based on income - even a new income tax if need be).
You'd IMMEDIATELY become the largest private insurance health insurance provider in the world. And, your collections would be handled by (and should be guaranteed by) the US government.
Word has it that there are almost 50,000,000 Americans without health insurance. Not a bad number to get income from.
Let's keep the comments on topic. No pro/con universal health care debates, please.
McCaskey(bcbsil) is retiring this year and already his successor, Pat Hemingway Hall.
@Ben Popken: a "federation"??? More accurately, it's an "Association" of member companies that license the BlueCross BlueShield brand.
@squishyalt: Well, for starters, because each state has its own regulations and prohibitions on where and how you can do business. So one company couldn't do it - it'd have to be several, probably closer to 50 corporations than one.
Does anyone have executive information for Anthem BCBS of Colorado. This is actually the trade name for Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. Thanks
Who knew that Canada had health insurance companies?