INTRODUCTION

 


to introduce you to our new regional company and new corporate name, CareFirst, Inc. As your health care needs have become more regional, our corporate responsibility is to serve you where you live, work and recreate.

CareFirst, Inc., which combines the Maryland and Washington, D.C. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, can serve you throughout the Maryland, District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and Southern Delaware regions. We sincerely believe that CareFirst, Inc. is focused on meeting your health care needs and on providing quality, choice, access and overall value to those we are privileged to serve.

This new beginning for the CareFirst, Inc. holding company means that future annual reports will combine the results of the operating affiliates - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital Area and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland. We hope you enjoy reading in this annual report the results of our efforts at BCBSNCA for the year 1997. We look forward in 1998 to serving your health care needs through CareFirst, Inc.

CareFirst, Inc.

 

 

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