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August 11, 2008
SC: BlueCross BlueSheild subsidary gets $7.3 million contract to process health claims from BOP
S.C. company nabs $7.3M federal prisons contract
Associated Press 08.11.08
A South Carolina company plans to create several dozen jobs in the state after winning a multimillion-dollar contract with the federal prisons system.
PGBA LLC, says it has been awarded a $7.3 million contract from the Bureau of Prisons to process health care claims for federal inmates throughout the United States.
The claims will come from health care service providers who care for inmates transported outside prisons for care. The Bureau of Prisons had been processing its own claims.
The office for the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina subsidiary will be in Surfside Beach and will eventually employ more than two dozen staffers.
PGBA processes about half of the nation's claims for TRICARE, a Defense Department health care benefit program.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/11/ap5310338.html
Posted by lois at August 11, 2008 08:02 PM