Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a national organization of 36 autonomous, group based and privately worked Blue Cross® and Blue Shield®companies. The Association claims and deals with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield trademarks and names in more than 170 nations and domains around the globe. The Association stipends licenses to autonomous organizations to utilize the trademarks and names in restrictive geographic territories.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Companies Operating and offering medicinal services scope in each of the 50 expresses, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations cover more than 106 million individuals . Across the nation, more than 96% of healing centers and 93% of expert suppliers contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations — more than some other back up plan.

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Thirty-six free and privately worked Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) contain the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System, the country's most established and biggest group of medical advantages organizations.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations give medicinal services scope to more than 106 million individuals — 33% of all Americans — in each of the 50 expresses, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations speak to the full range of human services scope. Across the country, more than 96% of healing facilities and 93% of expert suppliers contract straightforwardly with Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations enlist in the Federal Employee Program (FEP) — the biggest secretly endorsed medical coverage contract on the planet — more than 5.6 million government representatives, wards and retirees. Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations have joined forces with the government to process Medicare charge for-administration cases and installments since the system's commencement in 1965.

In FY 2011, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare temporary workers handled 83.2% of the more than 190 million aggregate cases from clinics and other supplier organizations (Part An) and 69.4% of the more than 990 million cases from doctors and other social insurance experts