The Failed Conversion of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to For-Profit Status: Part 2, Lessons Learned

This article presents lessons for other states and all types of nonprofit health care organizations from the failure by nonprofit CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield to convert to for-profit status and be sold to the publicly traded Wellpoint Health Networks, Inc. The lessons relate only in part to con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruce McPherson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2004-11-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_41.4.360