Quote of the Day

“If you look at our national competitors [for Blues plans] — Aetna, Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Cigna Corp. — their senior teams sit in a room and make decisions about everything from platform solutions to Medicare and Medicaid products they’ll offer on exchanges. They make decisions for the whole company. But we’re made up of 38 independent Blue organizations, and we need to be more efficient. The only way we can do that is if we, as Blues plans, dialogue about ways to pool resources to do things in a much more efficient and more cost-effective way.”

— Daniel J. Hilferty, president and CEO of Independence Blue Cross, in an exclusive interview with The AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans*.