As a for-profit, Horizon will have even less inclination to care
via NJ.com/the Star Ledger
Thursday, November 20, 2008
BY STEVEN M. ALTSCHULER
Wall Street or Main Street? Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has made its choice. It is not your street. Nor is it your child's.
Estimates of the ultimate value of Horizon as a stock-selling, for- profit company range from $500 million to $8 billion. That is quite a range. The u...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
PRESS RELEASE: Expanding NJ Horizon Watch Coalition Holds State House Press Conference...
New Jersey - CITIZENACTION
Contact Eve Weissman 732.246.4772
Expanding NJ Horizon Watch Coalition Holds State House Press Conference, Demands Governor & Regulators Protect Consumers and Do Their Job on Proposed Horizon Conversion
Growing alliance of health care, consumer, labor, senior, faith-based, student, disability, civil rights and social justice organizations voice...
Monday, November 17, 2008
MOST TOP-QUALITY HEALTH PLANS ARE NONPROFITS, LATEST RANKNGS BY NCQA AND U.S. NEWS REAFFIRM
WASHINGTON - Once again, most top-quality health plans in the U.S. are offered by nonprofit organizations, based on 2008 rankings released this month by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and featured in the latest issue of U.S. News and World Report.
This finding has held for all four years that these rankings have been released.
NCQA collects data from hundreds of he...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Nonprofit Blues Are Less Vulnerable to Stock Swings
Reprinted from The AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, a hard-hitting independent monthly newsletter on business strategies, products and markets, mergers and alliances, and financing of BC/BS plans.
By Jill Brown, Managing Editor
The worsening financial crisis likely will mean lower-than-expected membership gains for many Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Horizon conversion would undermine care, access
by Rocco A. Giliberti, M.D.
Doctor of Internal Medicine, Point Pleasant Beach
Asbury Park Press
It was with great interest that I read "Blue seeks the green" in the Business section of the Sunday Press on Sept. 21.
The article discussed the need for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield to change to a for-profit company due to "rapid-fire changes" discussed by the co...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
State's U.S. senators pressure Horizon on CHOP contract
via pressofAtlanticCity.com
After receiving more than 450 letters from concerned parents about Horizon terminating its contract with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia next spring, U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, both D-N.J., are now weighing in on the issue.
The senators are pressuring Horizon to negotiate a new contract with CHOP as well as calling on the ...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Health care premiums outpace pay in New Jersey
by Carol Ann Campbell
The Star-Ledger
The cost of health care premiums in New Jersey rose nearly five times faster than wages this decade, creating a growing financial burden for both workers and employers, according to a report a health care consumer group released Thursday.
Families USA, a Washington-based nonprofit group, found premiums in New Jersey rose 71 percent while ...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Do You Care About a Few Billion Dollars...
Stephen Foreman, PhD, JD, MPA
from Physician Advocate (a publication of the Medical Society of New Jersey)
One of Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling's most important contributions to finance and economics is the notion of focal points. If in a sea of uncertainty one can create focal points for discussion one can often win. The concept is used in business all of the time: comp...
