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page 20 ANTHEM, INC.
How do you provide health benefits to 5,300 workers
in 165 locations around the country? Danbury,
Connecticut-based Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc. chose
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
“We were seeing 25 percent annual increases in costs
for our health benefits and prescription drug claims,”
says Jim Kotowski, director of benefits and retirement
programs for the international home furnishings
company. “We needed a partnership with an insurance
company that shared our interest in health care
quality and in controlling costs.”
Ethan Allen also was attracted to the extensive Blue
Cross and Blue Shield national network of physicians
and hospitals and to Anthem’s programs that help
employees live longer, healthier lives. The bottom
line: “We have basically seen a 28 percent decrease
in medical claims and a 20 percent reduction in
prescription drug costs,” Kotowski says.