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Research and Markets: CareFirst BlueCross and BlueShield is the Largest Health Care Insurer in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Serving More Than 3.3 Million Members, Including Approximately 515,000 Members in the Federal Employees Health Program.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c32323) has announced the addition of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Business Intelligence Report to their offering.

CareFirst BlueCross and BlueShield is the largest health care insurer in the Mid-Atlantic region, serving more than 3.3 million members, including approximately 515,000 members in the Federal Employees Health program. CareFirst, Inc. (CareFirst) is the not-for-profit, non-stock, parent company of CareFirst of Maryland, Inc. and Group Hospitalization and Medical Services, Inc., affiliates that do business as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. A third affiliate does business as Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross.  of Delaware. CareFirst, Inc. is governed by a Board of Directors and special statutes regulating its business in Maryland, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Delaware and Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. . CareFirst has more than 6,000 employees in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
, Northern Virginia and West Virginia. CareFirst also has more than 80 percent of all of the Maryland/D.C./Delaware/Northern Virginia regions health care providers participating in one or more of its provider networks CareFirst offers self-insured employees administrative services through its third party administrator, NCAS NCAS National Capital Area Skeptics
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. CareFirst also operates CASCI CASCI College of Arts and Sciences , a subsidiary based in Charleston, WV, that annually processes more than 5 million claims from federal government subscribers and dependents as part of FEP See front end processor. .

This Business Intelligence Report provides the information and analysis you need on CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and allows you to gain an understanding of what makes the company one of the leading Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans and one of the leading health insurers in the Mid-Atlantic.

The report provides the following sections:

--Industry Overview/Trends

--Company Overview

--Company Strategy

--Internet Activities

--Company Executives

--Financial and Membership Information

--Lines of Business

--Sources

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c32323
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