Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has introduced a new Medicare Advantage plan to its portfolio of health plans for seniors. BlueMedicare Regional PPO joins a senior health insurance portfolio which already included HMO, PPO, Fee-for-service, Medicare Part D, and traditional Medicare Supplement Plans. BlueMedicare Regional PPO is available across Florida for a $45 [...]
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FamilyBlue – BCBSFL Discount Card
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSFL) offers a Medical Discount Card called FamilyBlue that provides discounts on health care. FamilyBlue is not health insurance, but it does provide discounts on heath care services which is negotiated with providers. As mentioned above, FamilyBlue is not health insurance, and should be viewed as a last resort [...]
GoBlue – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Blue Cross Blue Shield member plans initiatives to increase access to affordable health insurance by the uninsured. Part IV GoBlue is a product offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida which provides Florida residents access to doctor visits, basic and preventative dental care, prescription coverage, and lab tests all at affordable rates as low [...]
Florida Health Insurance To be Sold Via Storefronts by BCBSFL
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Plans to sell individual health insurance plans via storefront on a larger scale in the future. BCBSFL who has had an operational health insurance storefront in Pembroke Pines for more than a year plans to expand to five to eight stores across the state. Individual health insurance have become [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Teams Up With County
Miami-Dade county in Florida has teamed up with Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance of Florida for a very unique partnership according to the article “Dade, Blue Cross offer health plan” by John Dorschner on miamiherald.com. Currently there are around 600,000 uninsured in Miami-Dade county and leaders felt something needed to be done to fix this. Janet [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield Requiring Authorization
According to the article, “Blue Cross requiring psychiatrists to get prior authorization before treating patients” by Liz Freeman on naplesnews.com, Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance of Florida implemented a new rule taking effect this fall which will require psychiatrists to get authorization before treating patients in their office or out patient locations. Blue Cross [...]
Top Rated Health Plan In Florida
The state of Florida was not included in the Southeast region when J.D. Powers ranked the top health plans in the Southeast, in their rating of the top health plans in 17 distinct regions, Florida is its own region. That being said, J.D. Power and Associates rated Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida as the [...]
Florida Health Insurance Forces Patients to Switch Medications
The Sun-Sentinel’s Bob LaMendola wrote about a shocking trend among Florida health insurance companies: they’re now trying to save money by forcing consumers to take completely different drugs that are less expensive than the medications actually prescribed. While it’s customary for insurers to only cover generic versions of prescription drugs (that are chemically equivalent to [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida – Cover Florida Program
According to the Palm Beach Post, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSFL) has enrolled a paltry 266 Florida residents in the Cover Florida Program since in inception at the turn of the year. The Cover Florida Program, as previously discussed here, is a program championed by Governor Charlie Christ to help Florida’s 4 million [...]
