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