HCSC offers a wide variety of health and life insurance products and related services, through its operating divisions and subsidiaries; including Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and Dearborn National.
Meanwhile, during the war years, the American Medical Association (AMA) (which opposed managed care organizations from their very beginning) tried to defuse demand for managed care by promoting the rapid expansion of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield preferred provider organization networks.
OMIP is administered by Oregon's Office of Private Health Partnerships through Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Founded on 1959, it has become the largest medical insurance provider in Puerto Rico thanks to its licensed affiliation with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and is one of the major participants in the Puerto Rico health reform program, which provides free and low-cost medical coverage to impoverished citizens.
NYPD Blue | Toronto Blue Jays | Blue Peter | Blue | Blue Ridge Mountains | Blue Öyster Cult | Blue Note Records | Blue Heelers | The Shield | Pokémon Red and Blue | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | Blue Nile | Blue's Clues | Sheffield Shield | ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Blue'' | Blue Man Group | Vida Blue | The Blue Danube | Rhapsody in Blue | blue plaque | Blue Mountain State | Blue Cheer | Blue Bloods | Blue Beetle | Ateneo Blue Eagles | Project Blue Book | Blue Hill, Maine | Operation Blue Star | Kind of Blue | Canadian Shield |
Members include Aetna, America’s Health Insurance Plans, AultCare, the BlueCross BlueShield Association, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, Health Net, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint.
Central Croatia - Considered the oldest known symbol representing Croatia: Azure, a mullet of six points Or surmounted above a crescent Argent - A golden six-pointed star (representing the morning star) over a silver crescent moon on a blue shield.
Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College in Acocks Green, Birmingham, which uses his coat of arms (five golden birds around a golden floriated cross on a blue shield, derived from that of St Edward the Confessor) as their school badge.
Justin Ford Kimball - inventor of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield system, and namesake of the school in Dallas, Texas