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Blues plans spend $170M to expand into Medicaid

Hoping to significantly expand Medicaid coverage nationwide and increase the presence of Blues plans in the Medicaid market, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Independence Blue Cross are jointly

Blue Cross-Highmark deal bolstered under new state law

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware and Highmark inched closer toward affiliation with the state legislature's passage of a law that allows the insurers to evade restrictions set forth by the attorney

Hopeful Blue Cross must create foundation before Highmark merger

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware must create and fund a healthcare foundation if it wants to merge with Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Attorney General Beau Biden announced last week. The foundation

Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts no longer merging

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan are calling off plans to merge, and the decision is raising as many questions as it answered, including whether Massachusetts's proposed health law

Tufts Health Plan considers a second merger

Tufts Health Plan is considering taking control of a small managed care plan, Network Health, that could help expand its reach into the health insurance market for lower-income people, reports the

Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts consider merger to compete against BCBS

Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan--the second and third largest health plans in Massachusetts, respectively--are considering a merger to combine operations and make them a stronger competitor to