Latest Florida Blue Stories
New structure provides flexibility, supports transition to health solutions company JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Company, has filed a request with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) to organize under a policyholder-owned, not-for-profit mutual insurance holding company (MIHC) system. This structure provides Florida Blue important flexibility in today's rapidly changing health care environment and...
-- Company honored with three awards for its focus on supporting those with disabilities -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, hosted the seventh annual U.S. Disability Matters Award Banquet and Conference on its corporate campus on April 15-17, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) The event, created and implemented by Springboard Consulting, LLC, featured executive...
Partnership with Florida Blue Builds a Collaborative Healthcare Innovation Community in Florida JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthbox, a leading business accelerator that fosters early-stage healthcare companies, and their anchor partner Florida Blue, announced the opening of applications today for a 16-week accelerator program located in Jacksonville, Fla. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) Adding to the success of...
JACKSONVILLE and WESTON, Fla., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, and Cleveland Clinic Florida are proud to announce the execution of a Letter of Intent, which signifies their commitment to create an accountable care program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) The overall goals of accountable care arrangements are to improve individual patient care and overall health, as well as decrease medical...
JACKSONVILLE and TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, and Moffitt Cancer Center are proud to announce a new agreement creating an accountable care program specific to the treatment of cancer. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) The overall goals of accountable care arrangements are to improve individual patient care and overall health, as well as decrease medical costs. The accountable care...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, has reached an agreement to purchase Diagnostic Clinic Medical Group (Diagnostic Clinic) of Largo, Fla. Once the deal closes, Diagnostic Clinic will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Florida Blue. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO) Diagnostic Clinic has served Pinellas County for more than 40 years and is a physician-owned multi-specialty...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue and Mayo Clinic jointly announce a new collaboration aimed at providing the utmost in quality care for knee replacement patients in Florida. The two Florida health care leaders are teaming up to create a bundled payment agreement specific to the treatment of knee replacement surgery. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) Knee replacement surgery is the most common joint replacement procedure....
JACKSONVILLE and TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, is working with BayCare to create a new clinically integrated network developed by BayCare Physician Partners. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67207LOGO ) The new partnership creates a value-based payment structure with the overall goal of improving individual patient care and overall health while decreasing medical costs. About 4,000 Florida...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, is pleased to announce today that it has become a founding partner of the Lake Nona Institute, a non-profit organization that is developing health and sustainability programs in Orlando's 7,000-acre Lake Nona community. Florida Blue has already begun capitalizing on the partnership by working with some of Lake Nona Institute's key partners to help people and communities...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Foundation Board of Directors today announced the release of $3 million to provide quality health services and address health care disparities in Florida. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120904/MM67191LOGO ) The grants, funded through the IMPACT program, increase access to quality, health-related services for the people of Florida, especially those who are uninsured and...
