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Mark Farrah Associates Assessed Profit Margins for Leading Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans
February 2, 2021 GMT
MCMURRAY, Pa. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 2, 2021
Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), www.markfarrah.com, analyzed profit margins of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans, comparing year-over-year performance for third quarter 2020. The Blues brand controls over 40% of total U.S. commercial health enrollment, nationwide. The top seven BCBS affiliated insurers with over $10 billion in revenue include Anthem, Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), Blue Shield of CA, BCBS of Michigan Group, Guidewell Mutual Holding Group, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), and Highmark.
Aetna Agrees to Expand Coverage for Gender-Affirming Surgeries
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Trans women persuade Aetna to expand insurance coverage
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Aetna Agrees to Expand Coverage for Gender-Affirming Surgeries
One of the nation’s largest health insurers is agreeing to pay for breast augmentation for some trans women.
Two years ago, Cora Brna, a health care worker in Pittsburgh, was devastated to learn that her insurance would not cover the breast augmentation she had planned to have along with a genital reassignment surgery.Credit.Sarah Huny Young for The New York Times
Jan. 26, 2021
Allison Escolastico, a 30-year-old transgender woman, has wanted breast augmentation surgery for a decade. By 2019, she finally thought her insurance company, Aetna, would pay for it, only to find that it considered the procedure cosmetic, not medically necessary, and refused to cover it.