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CareFirst wants 25% rate hike to cover costs of sicker, older members
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield has proposed raising rates by 25 percent for individuals and small businesses who purchase plans on the Maryland health insurance exchange next year.
Can narrow networks boost exchange coverage?
As insurers prepare to sell plans through health insurance exchanges, they're hoping narrow network plans will appeal to a large number of new consumers.
Fierce Q&A: CareFirst CEO dishes on medical home success
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield has established one of the largest patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), which already yielded $40 million in cost savings in the program's short 18-month...
CareFirst patient-centered medical home saved $40M
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield has instituted one of the largest patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) in the country and has reaped big savings--$40 million--in the program's first year.
CareFirst finds success by tailoring local payment reform
As many insurers make headlines for taking large, overarching steps to revamp the fee-for-service payment system, one health insurer hopes to drive change through the local community by creating the
CareFirst BlueCross: 2,500 docs in patient-centered medical homes in 2011
Next year, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore hopes that half of the 5,000 primary-care physicians in its network will be participating in the first-year launch of its full-scale
