Empire Blue Cross has 4.1 million enrollees and is adding 250,000 a year in managed care.

On June 1, Empire Blue Cross said it would not pay, calling the operation experimental.

I called Empire Blue Cross, and the operator told me a check for $3,600 had been sent the month before.

Empire Blue Cross had sent a check in my name to somebody else's address.

I called again, and another bored operator told me Empire Blue Cross never received any affidavit.

The other provider, Empire Blue Cross, has about 700 additional county children registered.

Empire Blue Cross, which has provided hospital insurance to 1199 members for years, announced earlier this year that it planned to become a profit-making company.

She said most employees whose plans were dropped would still have access to the same doctors through a large national network offered by Empire Blue Cross.

For many years, one of his clients was Empire Blue Cross.

Empire Blue Cross gave a board member's company a contract to develop a computer system to streamline Empire's claims handling.