Top Blue Cross and Blue Shield-Branded Managed Care Organizations Lost More Than One Million Members in the First Half of 2008

HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that the 15 largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield-branded managed care organizations collectively lost more than one million members between January 2008 and July 2008. According to data available in Managed Market Surveyor-Rx, of the largest 15 managed care organizations that carry the Blue brand, eight organizations reported a decline in total medical enrollment. Blue Shield of California and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey were among the Blue Shield-branded plans posting a medical enrollment loss over the first half of 2008.

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