Blue Shield

noun

1. Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Example Sentences

Overwhelmingly, the youth of Generation Z — a group ranging from teens to 25-year-old adults — report mental health challenges, according to a recent poll from Blue Shield of California and the youth advocacy and policy group Children Now.

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In the Jan. 8 announcement of its restructuring, Blue Shield also disclosed that it was forming a for-profit subsidiary called Stellarus that would provide services to other health plans, such as delivering drugs to patients more inexpensively than pharmacy benefit managers.

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Ascendiun is structured as a nonprofit and Blue Shield and the company’s Medi-Cal insurer, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan — the former Care1st — also would continue as nonprofits, the insurer said at the time.

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“This structure is not uncommon among health plans, as many across the country — including other nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies — have made similar corporate reorganizations to better serve their membership,” the insurer said in its statement to The Times.

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Blue Shield was established in 1939 by the California Medical Assn. as the nation’s first prepaid health plan to cover physician bills.

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