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            <title>Debate continues over how to present medical records to patients</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Managed Healthcare Executive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As patient access to electronic medical records takes shape, many questions remain. Should patients see their entire medical records? Or should the records be repackaged to make them easier to understand and not needlessly upset patients?

Informat</description>
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            <title>Learning about the body takes guts</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Las Cruces Sun-News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHAPARRAL -- A mob of squirmy second-graders hops up and down as one in a frenzy of jumping jacks and then begins skipping in place, all the while singing about how you can skip-to-my-lou, but "Don't skip breakfast!" 
Just then their P.E. coach hold</description>
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            <title>COBRA Subsidy Extension Could Help Plans Keep Members, But May Cause MLR Uptick</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Plan Week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dA six-month extension to the federal government’s COBRA subsidy program will help health plans hang on to members that otherwise might have left the system. But because COBRA tends to attract less healthy employees, it also could translate to a bump</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC Names David D. Jones as New Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (January 7, 2010) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is pleased to announce the selection of David D. Jones as its new senior vice president and chief human resources officer.   As an HR executive in the health care and financial servic</description>
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            <title>Insurers Leverage Data Mining &amp; Predictive Analytics to Mitigate Increasingly Complex Fraud Schemes</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:15:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Insurance &amp; Technology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the never-ending fight against , insurers are 
employing data mining and predictive analytics technologies in
increasingly innovative ways to identify obscured data patterns
and establish effective benchmarks for claims investigations.
By Nath</description>
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            <title>Turning the Tide on the National Obesity Dilemma (AHIP Podcast with HCSC's CMO)</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:37 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: America's Health Insurance Plans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Paul Handel serves as Chief Medical Officer for Health Care Service Corporation which is the country's 4th largest health insurer through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.  His role provides a uniq</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: Computerworld Lists HCSC's Brian Hedberg as One of the Country's Top IT Leaders</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (December 8, 2009) – IDG's Computerworld has listed Health Care Service Corporation’s (HCSC), Brian Hedberg as a 2010 Premier 100 IT Leaders honoree. This year’s Premier 100 spotlights 100 award leaders from both the technology and business s</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: TMG Health Ranks #1 for Business Process Outsourcing to Government Health Plans</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: TMG Health&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TMG Health Again Ranks as the #1 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services Company to the Government Health Plan Market

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, TMG Health Inc. has been named the number one prov</description>
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            <title>Few Blues Plans Launch New ’10 Products; They Instead Refine Benefits, Marketing</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:23:25 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan says it is roll¬ing out a new individual health insurance product next year in an effort to make a “land grab” before pending health care reform legislation is enacted. But for most Blues plans, development of new </description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: MEDecision Appoints Scott A. Storrer CEO</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:01:46 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: MEDecision&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Company Poised to Capitalize on Health Care Reform Movement
 
Positive revenue growth projected this year despite down economy 
Next growth phase led by top talent and high performance culture
Need for timely, actionable patient info driving dema</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC Wins 9th Straight Compliance Best Practice Award from Health Ethics Trust</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (November 10, 2009) – As health insurers are scrutinized for health care reform, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is being recognized for its excellence in compliance and ethics.  The Health Ethics Trust, a division of the Council of Et</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC Listed as a Top Military Friendly Employer</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (November 9, 2009) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) has been listed as one of the country’s top “Military Friendly Employers” by G.I. Jobs magazine.  The recognition is significant because HCSC is the country’s largest customer-owned </description>
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            <title>OrganWise Guys deliver inside information on the body and making healthy choices</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:11:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Herald &amp; Review&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DECATUR - The students at Robertson Charter School had no idea what they were in for when they walked into the auditorium to find a group of strangely dressed adults. The grown-ups, employees of the University of Illinois Extension, were dressed up t</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: BCBSOK and MEDecision to Join Forces for Case Study Presentation at IT Summit</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: BCBSOK/MEDecision&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joint Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot Project to Support Health Care Reform Efforts with Increased Efficiencies and Cost Containment

LA QUINTA, Calif. and WAYNE, Pa.(November 4, 2009) — Representatives from MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider</description>
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            <title>Blue Cross to offer health coverage to UniCare members</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:06:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Dallas Morning News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state's 180,000 policyholders of UniCare health insurance will not lose coverage after the company stops offering insurance to corporate customers on Dec. 31. 

Chicago-based Health Care Services Corp. – which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shiel</description>
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            <title>UniCare to stop selling health insurance in state - Blue Cross offers replacement coverage</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Chicago Sun-Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blue Cross offers replacement coverage

UniCare is pulling out of the health insurance market in Illinois and forcing roughly 180,000 enrollees to ultimately switch insurers.

The company entered an agreement with Health Care Service Corp., which</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC and Unicare Announce Agreement to Transition Policyholders</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:11:42 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (October 28, 2009) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), a non-investor owned company operating Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, and WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) and its UniCare subsidiaries, an</description>
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            <title>Younger employees help senior executives unlock social media mystery: Both groups benefit</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Chicago Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janet Cabot couldn't wait to show Ashley Spohn her latest accomplishment.

"I am so all over this Delish thing," Cabot bubbled, punching up delish.com on her computer in her office at Edelman, a Chicago-based public relations firm.

"Oh, you're d</description>
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            <title>Administrative Costs for H1N1 Vaccine Administration Will Be Covered by Blues Plans</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:19:02 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even before flu season started, Blues plans across the nation said they will cover the costs of administering H1N1 vaccines. The first batches of H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine were sent out during the week ending Oct. 10, with more arriving the following </description>
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            <title>Insurers say system reform won't put them out of business</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:56:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: American Medical News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There could be boosts in business, company executives predict. Meanwhile, they offer some answers to a House subcommittee examining underwriting and denial practices.

(Sept. 28, 2009) - Insurance executives during a September meeting assured inves</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Chamber Recognizes HCSC for its Corporate Citizenship</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

U.S. Chamber Names Health Care Service Corporation as Finalist for its Corporate Citizenship Award 

CHICAGO (September 23, 2009) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) is reco</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC Covers H1N1 Vaccine for Members</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (September 24, 2009) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) – through it’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – announced today that it will waive co-pays and deductibles for the H1N1 (swine) flu va</description>
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            <title>The connection between pharmacies &amp; pharmaceutical companies in improving patient adherence</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Alensa Blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patient non-adherence is quickly becoming a significant issue within the healthcare industry. The rate of non-adherence and therefore lack of ‘effective treatment’ is prevalent in anywhere between 50% up to a staggering 90% of patients in some cases.</description>
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            <title>(PRESS RELEASE) Human Rights Campaign Lists HCSC as One of the Best Places to Work</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Country’s Largest Customer-Owned Health Insurer Receives a Perfect Score in the “Corporate Equality Index”

CHICAGO (September 14, 2009) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is setting an example for how employers should engage lesbian, gay, bi</description>
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            <title>Children's health worthy of investment</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Managed Healthcare Executive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Industry has little data on care variation for kids 

THAT THE COST AND QUALITY OF medical care varies significantly from state to state has long been known to doctors, hospitals and insurance providers. Yet, despite many years of documentation by </description>
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            <title>Getting Back to the Basics to Help Reign in the Cost of Health Care</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Managed Care Outlook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(September 2009) - Without a doubt, one of the hottest topics on Capitol Hill right now is health care reform. To say that the debate over health care has “heated up” since the beginning of the year is an understatement. The constant stream of headli</description>
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            <title>Health Plans Beef Up Quarterly Rx ReportsTo Show Employers Ways to Tweak Benefits</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Drug Benefit News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For health plans that manage pharmacy benefits for employers, presenting quarterly drug spend reports is a key opportunity to demonstrate to employer clients how their pharmacy dollars are being managed and recommend benefit design tweaks that could </description>
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            <title>Almost $350 Million Said Saved by Blues Plans' Anti-Fraud Efforts (PDF)</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans say they saved and recovered $347.2 million in 2008 because of plans’ anti-fraud investigations, almost $100 million more than the $248.4 million recovered in 2007. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) p</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC to Expand Innovative Pharmacy Adherence Program</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 10, 2009--Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expanding a successful n</description>
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            <title>Insurers Collaborate to Expand Access to Health Care Cost Information</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WellPoint, BCBSA, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida and HCSC Collaborate to Expand Access to Health Care Cost Information -- Blue plans in Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to launch Care Comparison for members; BCBSA selects Care Com</description>
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HCSC's Financial Strength Considered "Superior" by A.M. Best

A.M. Best continues to rate Health Care Service Corporation's (HCSC) financial strength as one of the strongest in the health insurance industry. For more informatio</description>
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            <description>Outlet: Modern Healthcare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patricia Hemingway-Hall, CEO, Health Care Service Corp., offers advice to women about the importance of exploring opportunities and taking risks in healthcare.</description>
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The Microsoft Health Engagement Survey showed that a majorit</description>
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            <description>Outlet: TecTrends and 11 other outlets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of the 2009 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award - Premier Organization for African Americans in IT and Leading Diversity Job Board Recognize Best Companies for Blacks in Technology
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            <description>Outlet: Diversity/Careers in Engineering &amp; Information Technology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This four-state healthcare giant looks for all the latest IT disciplines, and offers a lively corporate culture that’s steeped in diversity awareness

IT pros at Health Care Service Corp (HCSC) have to 
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            <description>Outlet: Health Plan Week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drop $20 billion on any industry, as the economic stimulus bill is about to do on the health information technology industry, and you’re bound to create some buzz. While the only deliverable so far has been near-record attendance at this year’s Healt</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: PR Newswire, Managed Care Weekly, and 3 others&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HCSC DISCUSSES THE CONTROVERSIAL ICD-10 TRANSITION AT THE 2009 HIMSS CONFERENCE

New Payment Process Affects Doctors, Hospitals and Insurers

CHICAGO (April 5, 2009) – As an expert on ICD-10 issues, Dr. Joe Nicholson, Chief Medical Officer for Bl</description>
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            <title>TMG Purchase Gives HCSC Medicare ASO Expertise, Capacity</title>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE:  DNoA (HCSC's Dental Network) Becomes Largest National Dental Network in the U.S.</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:25:45 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois (December 15, 2008) – Dental Network of America, Inc. (DNoA), announces double digit growth of 26% for 2008 in its national dental network -- the DNoA Preferred Network -- now totaling over 120,000 dentist access points nat</description>
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            <title>PRESS RELEASE: HCSC Finds Success with Innovative Program Targeting Obesity Epidemic</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:22:07 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (December 15, 2008) — As the debate begins to heat up about how best to improve the U.S. health care system over the next year, one of the nation’s largest health insurers has an innovative program that can help its members today. Health Care</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Business Insurance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patricia Hemingway Hall became chief executive officer of Health Care Service Corp. in November after serving as president and chief operating officer. Before that, she was the executive vp of internal operations, overseeing the company’s finance, cl</description>
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            <title>Blues Plans Turn to Conservative Investment Strategies</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Agility Training for the Learning Organization</title>
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Many times the learning department is out of step with the business, providing training that is no longer relevant. To be more agile, the learning function can provide rapid instructo</description>
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            <title>Up Close:  Patricia Hemingway Hall (HCSC CEO)</title>
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            <description>Outlet: Business Insurance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up Close: Patricia Hemingway Hall

NEW JOB TITLE: President and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., the parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. 

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            <title>In Their Own Words: HCSC CEO Hemingway Hall Looks for Growth</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <dc:creator>Brown, Jill</dc:creator>
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            <title>MEDecision names new president</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Philadelphia Business Journal - Online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Storrer, who was the group president of the pharmaceutical segment of Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health Inc., will be responsible for all aspects of Medecisions operations. Adamek had been the vice president for commercial software at Wayne, Pa.-bas</description>
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            <title>Nurse Named CEO of Health Care Service Corporation</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Nurse.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Health Care Service Corporation, which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, elected Pat Hemingway Hall, RN, BSN, chief executive officer.

"Because of our size, strength, and customer-owned ori</description>
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            <title>HCSC Compliance Officer Receives Highest Honor From Health Ethics Trust</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:28:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Company Receives 8th Consecutive Compliance Award

CHICAGO (November 6, 2008) – Tara Dowd Gurber, senior vice president and corporate compliance officer for Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), has been named a Health Ethics Trust Fellow — the h</description>
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            <title>Health Care Service Corporation Completes Acquisition of TMG Health</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (Nov. 3, 2008) – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, has completed its acquisition of TMG Health, the nation’s leading provider of business p</description>
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            <title>Hemingway Hall named CEO at HCSC</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Modern Healthcare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patricia Hemingway Hall was named chief executive officer of Health Care Service Corp., effective Nov. 1. Hemingway Hall, 55, has served for the past year as president and COO of HCSC, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New </description>
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            <title>Hemingway Hall Named CEO of Health Care Service Corporation</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (October 30, 2008) — Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, today announced that its board of directors has elected Pat Hemingway Hall as the co</description>
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            <title>HCSC agrees to buy TMG Health</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Healthcare Finance News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a deadline of October 1, 2011, for the industry to convert to ICD-10 for coding diagnoses and treatment. 

Advocating – as many stakeholders are doing – for a deadline extens</description>
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            <title>President and COO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to Join Health Care Service Corporation</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: HCSC, Corp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (September 9, 2008) – Next month, Colleen Reitan, president and chief operating officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBSMN), will become Health Care Service Corporation’s (HCSC) executive vice president of internal operations.</description>
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            <title>In Depth: HCSC Acquires MEDecision</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:12:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Insurance &amp; Technology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Executives from Health Care Sevice Corporation (HCSC) and MEDecision discuss their merger and what affect it could have on Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans.

By Nathan Conz (Insurance &amp; Technology) 
September 08, 2008


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            <title>Insurer Says Technology Acquisition To Transform Patient Care</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: InformationWeek - Online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Health Care Service hopes patients will have better outcomes and its costs will be reduced with its purchase of disease management software maker MEDecision. 

(By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek)

When Health Care Service Corp. -- the n</description>
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            <title>Employees Helping Employees: HCSC Donates in Wake of Iowa Floods</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:12:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Health Care Service Corporation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHICAGO (August 28, 2008) – Employees of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) recently reached across state lines to deliver a $20,000 check in support of their counterparts at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa who suffered from devastati</description>
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            <title>Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company Anthony F. Trani Appointed President and CEO of Fort Dearborn L</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Marketwire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company announces the appointment of Anthony F. Trani as president and CEO. Trani, a 36-year veteran of the insurance industry, fills a vacancy recently created by retiring president Larry Newsom. 

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            <title>Innovative Diabetes Program in McLean County a Success</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: PR Newswire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Results for program's first year show positive outcomes

    BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL, Ill., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Diabetes
Checks &amp;amp; Balances, a unique program launched locally to help people manage
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            <description>Outlet: AHIP Coverage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <title>MEDecision agrees to merger with HCSC</title>
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            <description>Outlet: Healthcare IT News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAYNE, PA - In a deal designed to give the company more operating capital, MEDecision, Inc. has reached a merger agreement with one of its largest clients. The deal, announced Wednesday, allows the Chicago-based Health Care Service Corporation to acq</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: DiversityInc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This very important list is calculated differently from most of the other demographic lists because we do not have real demographic data on these companies--many people with disabilities do not self-identify. We ascertain this list by factoring in th</description>
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            <description>Outlet: DiversityInc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are here   DiversityInc | Homepage Free Stories | The DiversityInc Top . . .

Almost 40 percent of high-performing women leave the workplace, most because of personal obligations or that proverbial glass ceiling, according to the Center for Wor</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Outlet: Midwest Construction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33-Story Blue Cross Tower Sprouting 24 More Floors

by Craig Barner

Like preteens everywhere, the 11-year-old Blue Cross-Blue Shield Tower in Chicago is experiencing growing pains.

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            <dc:creator>Craig Barner</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Outlet: DiversityInc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2008 Top 50 List

Verizon Communications

The Coca-Cola Co.

Bank of America

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Procter &amp; Gamble

Cox Communications

Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.

Johnson &amp; Johnson

IBM

American Express

Marriott Internationa</description>
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            <description>Outlet: Chicago Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women typically treat their kids’ coughs and runny noses, schedule regulartrips to the doctor’s office and are the family’s key decision-maker onhealth-care issues.
Now they’re moving into the executive suites of health insurers, a businesslong domi</description>
            <dc:creator>Japsen, Bruce</dc:creator>
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