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Blue Cross of California Introduces Pay-for-Performance Hospital Program
Date:3/19/2008

ospital and Medical Center, USC Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center, Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, Lakewood Regional Medical Center, Placentia Linda Hospital, San Dimas Community Hospital, John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center, Twin Cities Community Hospital Inc., Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, Community Hospital of Los Gatos, Doctors Hospital of Manteca, San Ramon Regional Medical Center, Mendocino Coast District Hospital, Community Medical Center of Fresno, Clovis Community Medical Center, University Medical Center of Fresno, Patients' Hospital of Redding and Doctors Medical Center of Modesto.

About Blue Cross of California

Blue Cross of California is a subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people it serves and the health of its communities. WellPoint, Inc. is the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company in terms of membership in the United States. WellPoint, Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as Blue Cross Blue Shield in 10 New York City metropolitan counties and as Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com.


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