Life & Specialty Ventures and Cambia Health Solutions announce new strategic collaboration to benefit ancillary and dental customers and members

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. and PORTLAND, Ore., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Life & Specialty Ventures and Cambia Health Solutions announce a strategic collaboration designed to improve the medical-dental care and financial wellbeing of the people and families navigating care. Under the deal, pending regulatory approval, Cambia's LifeMap ancillary insurance business will become part of Life & Specialty Ventures' USAble Life ancillary insurance business; also, under the new partnership, USAble will manage Regence Dental products. Cambia will gain an ownership position and Board representation in Life & Specialty Ventures.

Both LifeMap and USAble Life have successful, multi-decade histories of serving Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan members. The partnership brings together substantial expertise and scale into an organization that will support 1.7 million ancillary members and 1.5 million dental members across 17 Blue plans. Chris Blanton, Cambia's Senior Vice President Commercial and Ancillary Markets, noted, "We are proud of the growth and consumer focus LifeMap and Regence Dental represent. The opportunity to combine our success with USAble's and deliver an even better experience and greater care for our members is exciting and will result in extended expertise and increased operating scale that ultimately benefits the people and families we serve."

USAble currently employs almost 500 employees and operates two business hubs today – corporate headquarters based out of Little Rock, AR, and a second hub in Jacksonville, FL. It also has offices in Nashville, TN, Birmingham, AL, and Honolulu, HI. LifeMap employs almost 100 employees and is based in Portland, OR. "We are eager to add LifeMap's talented, caring teammates to our own, creating our new West Coast hub," shared Rich Macy, Chief Operating Officer of Life & Specialty Ventures.

USAble Life will be making LifeMap's products its own, re-branding them USAble Life, and introducing new and innovative products, currently unavailable in LifeMap's markets. These products will continue to be sold and serviced by Portland-based teams. For Regence Dental Products, USAble Life will take on managing, marketing, developing, underwriting, and reinsuring responsibilities. The products will retain the Regence brand and continue to be sold by Regence sales professionals.

More information on all the companies is available at cambiahealth.com, lifemapco.com, and usablelife.com/power-of-partnership/.

About USAble Life

USAble Life brings the power of partnering to our health plan owners and partners, businesses and their employees, and individual customers. We are strategically positioned to support our partners by providing products and services that complement and enhance their core health insurance offerings. We have more than four decades of service and provide coverage to 1.2 million life, disability, and supplemental insurance customers and 1.0 million dental customers. We are a top ten life, disability, and supplemental carrier and a top three dental carrier in each of our markets. To learn more about us, visit usablelife.com/power-of-partnership/.

About Cambia Health Solutions

Cambia Health Solutions, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is dedicated to transforming health care. We put people at the heart of everything we do as we work to make the health care system more economically sustainable and efficient for people and their families. Our company reaches millions of Americans nationwide, including more than 3.1 million people in the Pacific Northwest who are enrolled in our regional health plans. To learn more about us, visit CambiaHealth.com or Twitter.com/Cambia. 

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