Due to the earthquakes and state of emergency declaration in Kern and San Bernardino counties, Blue Shield of California is activating their emergency access to care procedures in those areas. They ar...
El Camino Hospital issued a notice to terminate its Contracting Hospital Agreement with Anthem Blue Cross. El Camino has hospital campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos. To date, Anthem Blue Cross an...
Health Net released Q4 rates. However, rates quoted are pending regulatory approval. There are no new plans or termed plans, and there are no changes to their specialty lines of coverage.
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Anthem Blue Cross will not renew its CaliforniaCare Agreement with San Benito Medical Associates. As a result, San Benito Medical Associates will no longer be part of Anthem’s commercial HMO Network b...
Anthem Blue Cross announced that Allied Healthcare Providers and Verity Medical Foundation will terminate on July 1, 2019. Impacted members will be transferred to alternate participating medical group...
Anthem Blue Cross reached a multi-year agreement with Adventist Health. The fully executed amendments include Medicare Advantage, professional, and ancillary agreements. The amendments are effective o...
Effective Oct. 1, 2019, Anthem Blue Cross will change their Rx Tier 1a/1b (split tier) benefits on a majority of January 1, 2019 plans. This means that Tier 1 a/1b will combine to form Tier 1. This w...
After months of negotiations, Blue Shield of California and Physicians for Healthy Hospitals, (PHH)/KPC Hospitals System, have not reached mutual agreement on rates and terms for their hospital contra...
Starting August 1, 2019, Aetna’s ongoing ACH debit will be the standard method for premium payments (paper check is no longer accepted). Regularly scheduled payments will be based on the membership at...
Sharp Health Plan has released their Q4 rates with a decrease on all HMO plans. The Full Choice network will decrease by 4.5% while the limited HMO networks will decrease 5.9% compared to Q3 2019 rate...
UnitedHealthcare has released rates for Q4 2019. There are no changes to plan benefits, packages, or networks. The statewide average increase is 1% for HMOs and 1.5% for PPOs.
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Choice Builder® has some great news to share. Effective July 1, 2019, rates on all their Delta Dental PPOs will have a significant decrease. The decreases are as follows:
Platinum -2.7%
Gold -...