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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Buckles under Pressure
Good news for folks in Pinal County. Would loved to have been a fly on the wall in THAT series of, ahem, discussions.
BCBSAZ still sittin' on the bench in Maricopa though.
All eyes on Cigna. Will they, or won't they? (leave)
For those of you unfamiliar, Cigna has a huge infrastructure in Maricopa, tons of members in a system quite similar to Kaiser that serves employees, individuals, and MAPD members. But, they were donked this year for Medicare open enrollment (due mainly to shenanigans of their brain-child purchase of Health Spring) and now it looks as though CMS will NOT let them back in this year.
Oh yeah? Hmm. Those guys have ultimate leverage here. Ultimate.
Let's see how clever they are at negotiating.*
You'd think that a Medicare FIVE STAR plan would find a way to get some kind of exemption from the dastardly deeds perpetrated by their newly acquired subsidiary thousands of miles to the east.
*no Trump one-liners please
Good news for folks in Pinal County. Would loved to have been a fly on the wall in THAT series of, ahem, discussions.
BCBSAZ still sittin' on the bench in Maricopa though.
All eyes on Cigna. Will they, or won't they? (leave)
For those of you unfamiliar, Cigna has a huge infrastructure in Maricopa, tons of members in a system quite similar to Kaiser that serves employees, individuals, and MAPD members. But, they were donked this year for Medicare open enrollment (due mainly to shenanigans of their brain-child purchase of Health Spring) and now it looks as though CMS will NOT let them back in this year.
Oh yeah? Hmm. Those guys have ultimate leverage here. Ultimate.
Let's see how clever they are at negotiating.*
You'd think that a Medicare FIVE STAR plan would find a way to get some kind of exemption from the dastardly deeds perpetrated by their newly acquired subsidiary thousands of miles to the east.
*no Trump one-liners please