IBC received one of the top corporate team awards from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) after mobilizing a team of nearly 400 walkers who raised $36,000 through donations and its corporate matching gift program for the ADA’s Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes presented by Independence Blue Cross (IBC). This fall, more than 3,500 people [...]

Prevention is receiving more attention nationwide as a successful strategy to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, care for chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease account for 75 percent of medical care costs in the United States. Independence Blue [...]

The Partnership for Patient Care, a quality and patient safety effort led by southeastern Pennsylvania hospitals and one of the region’s largest health care insurers, Independence Blue Cross, announces its new initiatives for 2009-2011 at a conference at the College of Physicians here. Approximately 150 hospital executives and quality experts attending the meeting will be [...]

A Feb. 4 Capitol Hill briefing on chronic disease prevention and care – the first in a series planned this year as the nation moves toward broad health care reform – will explore effective private- and public-sector strategies to battle chronic conditions, which consume three-quarters of all health care spending nationally.

An inherent piece of the American dream — that children have more opportunities and a better life than their parents — is seriously at risk as the incidence of obesity among children continues to rise, and the current generation of children could become the first in this country’s history to have a shorter lifespan than [...]