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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Blue Deal

From the LA Times yesterday:
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Nonprofit insurer Blue Shield of California said it resolved a lengthy contract dispute with UCLA and other UC system hospitals over reimbursements for patient care. Effective Sept. 1, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital will be back in the Blue Shield network. The San Francisco health insurer said this new contract with all UC providers statewide runs through June 30, 2015...

Full story at
Fact of the matter is that although we have these disputes from time to time, big insurers don't want to cut UC medical centers out of their networks and UC medical centers need patients from the big insurers. So the next time you read about a dispute like this one, don't feel blue:

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