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 ...
Duke and UNC Health remain at odds with a pair of major insurance companies, meaning patients across the Triangle could find themselves out-of-network if an agreement on a contract can’t be reached ...
The Indiana Hospital Association, Indiana State Medical Association and Indiana Physicians Health Alliance are all supporting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when their insurer and hospital get into a contract dispute. Here are six things... 6 things to know if your doctors are suddenly out ...