Review of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's Final Administrative Cost Proposal for Fiscal Year 2009.

Of the $4.34 million in administrative costs that Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association claimed in its Final Administrative Cost Proposal for fiscal year 2009, $4.28 million was allowable, allocable, and reasonable in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Medicare contract. The remaining $59,000 represents postretirement benefits that we did not review and is the subject of a separate review.