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How to keep your Tufts doctor
By adamg on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 10:12am
Tufts Medical Center posts tips for Blue Cross/Blue Shield patients who don't want to lose their doctors should insurance-a-geddon happen and the two sides can't reach a contract. The main tip: Change your health plan.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield has its own page, too. Its main tip: Change your doctor.
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Open Enrollment Period
For most companies, this closed on December 31. I think both Tufts and Blue Cross were banking on this. That means that changing insurance companies isn't an option for many people - not that it was for either me or my spouse anyway (small companies, one option).
If a big network of doctors
If a big network of doctors pulls out of an insurer's network, it's considered a "qualifying event" that allows employers to re-open enrollment. That assumes of course that they have more than one insurance company to offer their eployees.
U-N-I-O-N!!!!
Where is Sally Field when you need her?
In all serious though, I hope that BCBS of MA and Tufts can work this thing out lickety split. Our entire family's health care is affiliated with the hospital or their partner groups.
My elderly mother is in the
My elderly mother is in the cross-hairs as well. Treatment at Tufts has kept her from going blind for several years now.
I couldn't help but notice
Partners threatens to cancel their Blue Cross contract unless they get bigger payments: An in-depth investigative report on how Partners is screwing Blue Cross - and, indirectly, the taxpayer.
Tufts cancels their Blue Cross contract because they can't get bigger payments: A few column-inches on how Blue Cross is screwing Tufts doctors and, indirectly, patients.