Oct 21, 2022
Anthem has reached a multi-year agreement with Stanford health.
As previously announced, Stanford Health issued a notice to terminate its Commercial Contracting Hospital Agreement with Anthem Blue Cross effective September 1, 2022. The Stanford Health-Affinity Medical Groups would also be terminating effective September 1, 2022. Since Anthem was unable to reach agreement, their contracts terminated. With this new contract agreement, Stanford Health will return to Anthem’s Network as noted below.
It's important to note the effective dates of this agreement, as the hospital and PPO medical groups are retro effective to September 1, 2022, however the HMO medical groups will be in network as of December 1, 2022. Below are the referenced entities and their effective dates:
Hospitals - retro effective September 1, 2022
- Stanford Medical Center (050441)
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (053305)
Medical Groups (PPO only) - retro effective September 1, 2022
- University Healthcare Alliance Medical Group
- Lucile Packard Medical Group
- Stanford Healthcare Medical Group
Medical Groups (HMO only) - effective December 1, 2022
- Affinity Medical Group-Bay Valley Region (0XQ)
- Affinity Medical Group-Rossmoor Region (0XS)
- Affinity Medical Group-Alameda Region (0XW)
- Affinity Med Grp-Eden/San Leandro Region (0XX)
- Affinity Medical Group-West County Region (0XY)
- Affinity Medical Group-South Bay (2K9)
