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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David Holmberg has been Highmark's CEO for just eight weeks. And the region's largest insurance company -- that now provides health services through its Allegheny Health Network -- has been embroiled with UPMC.
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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 plans to meet with officials from western Pennsylvania's biggest insurer, Highmark, and its dominant hospital system, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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.
Highmark Inc., the state's largest insurance company, is changing chief executive officers for the second time in less than two years.
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Allegheny County officials say they are sticking with Highmark as the health care provider for its employees.
It was a meeting set weeks ago, but Wednesday's discussion between Mayor Bill Peduto and UPMC's CEO Jeffrey Romoff took on greater significance in the wake of demonstrations that shut down part of Grant Street this week.
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The country group Little Big Town will perform at Citizens Live at the Wylie in October.
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A community in Washington County said it is taking steps to protect its residents from data centers.
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The House on Tuesday passed Republicans' $70 billion bill funding immigration enforcement agencies through the rest of President Trump's term, bringing an end to the monthslong stalemate over funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
U.S. Central Command said Tuesday evening that it conducted "self-defense strikes" on Iran in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter on Monday. President Trump said Iranians had shot down the helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz. The two pilots were uninjured. After the retaliatory strikes were announced, President Trump told ABC News that "I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful."
Mike Tomlin stepped down as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers after 19 seasons with the team.
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