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Excellus fined $1M for denying ER claims

Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield was fined almost $1 million for improperly denying emergency room claims and failing to explain benefits to its members. The New York Department of Financial Services

Excellus to pay for wrongfully denying lead tests

Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield on Thursday reached a settlement with the New York attorney general in which the insurer will provide refunds, plus interest, for childhood lead screening tests that

Outgoing Excellus CEO gets 173% increase in compensation

Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield's CEO, who just announced his retirement, made $5.2 million last year. CEO David Klein's 2011 compensation is a 173 percent increase from his $1.9 million pay package

Excellus BCBS airs funny ads to cut avoidable ER visits

More than 40 percent of emergency room (ER) visits--amounting to 700,000 visits a year--in upstate New York are avoidable, concludes an analysis from Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, so the insurer