Independence Blue Cross will compensate its in-network doctors with a pay-for-performance model, a move it says will save money while improving the quality of health care.

After 18 years with Independence Blue Cross, Christopher D. Butler, the insurer’s chief operating officer and executive vice president, announced his retirement.

A group representing the nation’s health insurance companies is calling an investigation by the U.S. House into the finances of 52 insurers a “politically motivated, taxpayer financed fishing expedition.”

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The Pennsylvania insurance commissioner has deemed the compensation of the chief executives of Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross “reasonable” under state law.

The examination and finding is part of the …  Read →

It appears that the brains at Highmark and Independence Blue Cross have kept their words, uttered emphatically in July 2008, when asked what they would say to loss of the …  Read →