Highmark's CEO Answers Tough Questions On Access To UPMC
Most Highmark subscribers will soon lose low-cost access to UPMC in a consent agreement Highmark agreed to.
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Most Highmark subscribers will soon lose low-cost access to UPMC in a consent agreement Highmark agreed to.
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Officials with health insurer Highmark Inc. and the Pennsylvania Insurance Department have spelled out a plan for Highmark customers to continue using doctors from the rival University of Pittsburgh Medical Center once Highmark's provider agreement with UPMC ends Jan. 1.
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UPMC has agreed to allow some Highmark insurance enrollees under certain conditions to continue using its doctors and facilities at in-network rates under a consent decree filed in court Friday after a long and bitter fight between the two western Pennsylvania health care giants.
UPMC and Highmark have agreed to a transition plan, sources tell KDKA-TV money editor Jon Delano.
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Gov. Tom Corbett says he wants to minimize the disruption if people who are covered through western Pennsylvania's biggest insurer, Highmark, lose in-network access to the dominant western Pennsylvania hospital system, UPMC.
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