From Anthem Health: New York-Presbyterian and Empire BlueCross BlueShield have agreed to a multiyear deal to keep the 10-hospital health system in Empire’s network. The accord ends a public fight that stoked fears that about 300,000 NYP patients would face higher out-of-network charges next year. The agreement will also maintain Empire members’ access to New York-Presbyterian’s medical groups, including …
Empire Blue Cross terminates South Nassau Community Hospital
From Empire Blue Cross: “We are actively negotiating a renewal deal but we have reached a point where we are proceeding with the activities to terminate our contract effective 5/1/18. The 60 day cooling off period ends 7/1/18 , on 5/15/18 notification letters were mailed to our members. As always we are continuing our dialogue with the facility in the hopes of reaching …
Major Changes to NY Empire and Oxford plans for 2017
Empire Blue Cross Network Changes- EPO/PPO (i.e. “BlueCard”) –this is Empire’s best-in-class legacy BlueCard network Blue Priority – full BlueCard hospital network with a narrowed practitioner (doctor) network when in Empire’s 28-county service area. Plans are non-gated with National BlueCard access for folks living and traveling outside of NY. Most of Northwell doctors now are non-participating in the Blue Priority …