Excellus BlueCross BlueShield News

New York Study Highlights Avoidable Emergency Room Costs

A New York health insurer’s study shows 10 common conditions like sinus infections and sprains represented more than 2 million visits to hospital emergency rooms statewide and cost about $1.3 billion in 2013. The study says about 90 percent could …

New York Health Insurer’s Data Breach Puts 10M Records at Risk

Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to show the industry is still struggling …