HEALTH PLANS
STRATEGIC INVESTORS
Company: BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona
State(s): Arizona
Employees: 1,500
Website: www.azblue.com
Description: BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona is a local, independent and not-for-profit health insurance company headquartered in Phoenix. Founded in 1939, the company has more than 1,500 dedicated employees providing health insurance products, services and networks to more than 1 million Arizonans.
Company: BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
State(s): North Carolina
Employees: 4,700
Website: www.bcbsnc.com
Description: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to more than 3.7 million members, including approximately 900,000 served on behalf of other Blue Plans.
Company: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
State(s): New Jersey
Employees: 4,900
Website: www.horizon-bcbsnj.com
Description: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) is a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Newark. Horizon BCBSNJ is the state's largest health insurer with $7.5 billion in revenues and 3.5 million covered lives.
Company: Independence Blue Cross
State(s): Pennsylvania
Employees: 9,500
Website: www.ibx.com
Description: Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and its subsidiaries are the Philadelphia region’s largest health insurers with more than 2.6 million members locally, and 3.4 million overall. The health plan employs nearly 9,500 people and processes 32 million claims and 6 million customer inquiries annually. The company serves all areas of the health care market by offering quality products and services such as managed care, traditional indemnity, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Company: WellPoint
State(s): California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin
Employees: 42,900
Website: www.wellpoint.com
Description: WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) is the nation's largest health benefits company and provides health coverage, primarily under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) name, to about 35 million members. The largest health insurer in the US, it is a Blue Cross or BCBS licensee in 14 states and provides plans under the Unicare name in other parts of the country. WellPoint offers a broad range of managed care plans (including PPO, HMO, indemnity, and hybrid plans) to employers, individuals, and Medicare and Medicaid recipients. It also provides administrative services to self-insured groups, as well as specialty insurance products.