Blue Cross of California Recognized for State-Sponsored Innovations.THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 1, 1999-- BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) The field in an e-mail header that names additional recipients for the message. It is similar to carbon copy (cc), but the names do not appear in the recipient's message. Not all e-mail systems support the bcc feature. See fcc. Awarded $1.2 Million for Rural Health Programs and Receives Two Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Awards Blue Cross of California, the California subsidiary of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WLP WLP WebLogic Portal (Bea Systems) WLP Wafer Level Packaging WLP Women's Learning Partnership (Bethesda, MD) WLP Workplace Learning & Performance WLP World Library Partnership, Inc. ), has received a significant grant and two prestigious awards for its outstanding care for rural and low- income patients. The first award is a $1.2 million grant from the California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board's (MRMIB MRMIB Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (California) ) Healthy Families Program to implement a variety of rural community health programs. Blue Cross of California received funding for 13 of 16 proposals it submitted to MRMIB. The grant will help Blue Cross of California establish additional Telemedicine sites in locations with high populations of seasonal and migrant farm workers, expand mental-health and substance-abuse recovery availability in rural areas, and add more mobile health visits through a "Health on Wheels" program. "This grant is crucial to helping us ensure that Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal families receive quality and technologically advanced medical care without having to leave their communities," said John Monahan, general manager, State Sponsored Programs, Blue Cross of California. Two awards come from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA BCBSA Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association ), honoring Blue Cross of California for its Innovations and Best Practice in medical and pharmacy management. The two programs recognized by the national awards program are "See a Specialist Across the Street, or Across the State: A Telemedicine Demonstration Project," in the innovations category, and "Community Resource Centers: Facilitating Plan Provider Interface," in the provider relationships category. "Blue Cross of California continues to develop new methods to expand care to lower-income and rural communities throughout our state. It is important that everyone has access to the most advanced medical treatments available. We are pleased that our efforts have been recognized by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association," Monahan said. The National Awards honor distinguished programs developed by Blue plans for excellence in medical-management categories defined by the National Council on Medical Management. Blue Cross of California was selected from more than 30 program nominations from plans, making the awards more competitive than ever. Blue Cross of California, with 5 million medical members, is the California operating subsidiary of WellPoint Health Networks, one of the nation's largest publicly traded managed-care companies. WellPoint serves the health-care needs of nearly 7.2 million medical and approximately 30.6 million specialty members nationally. WellPoint offers a broad spectrum of quality network-based health products, including HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, , PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale , hybrid and specialty managed-care products. Specialty products include pharmacy benefit management A Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) is a third party administrator of prescription drug programs. They are primarily responsible for processing and paying prescription drug claims. , dental, utilization management, vision, mental health, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, COBRA administration and Medicare supplements. |
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