Last winter, Amber Wingler started getting a series of increasingly urgent messages from her local hospital in Columbia, Missouri, letting her know her family's health care might soon be upended. MU ...
After weeks of negotiation and hours before a deadline, LCMC and UnitedHealthcare have reached a tentative deal. LCMC Health issued the following statement:"LCMC Health is pleased to share that we ...
CareOregon, the largest Medicaid provider in the state, will soon stop covering mental health and substance use treatment from out-of-network providers. Coverage will will end on Oct. 1 for Medicaid ...
Contract showdowns between hospital systems and health insurers are happening more often, and patients are caught in the middle. In recent months, disputes over expiring contracts have led to tens of ...
Consumers gravely concerned about their healthcare are sounding the alarm after Jefferson Health, our region's largest health system, announced earlier this week that it was unable to finalize a new ...
As Brian Nowlin walked out of his yearly physical earlier this month, the staff at his doctor’s office handed him a flyer. Beginning in January, the flyer informed him, his Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...
If you have a health insurance plan, you’ve probably come across the terms “in-network” and “out-of-network.” Simply put, in-network means the doctors or hospitals you visit contract with your ...
About 60,000 UnitedHealthCare customers are now out-of-network at Johns Hopkins Medicine facilities. An agreement between the two expired Monday after they failed to reach a deal regarding how care ...
In a recent discussion at Becker’s Healthcare’s 22nd Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC + The Future of Spine Conference, Pamela Mehta, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and CMO ...