Blue cross, conway PHO don't see eye-to-eye. (Inside business).Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. and the Conway Regional Physician Hospital Organization won't have a contract effective Jan. 1. Only patients with Health Advantage HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, and the FirstSource PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there will be affected. Without the contract, patients who want to receive care from the Conway Regional Network will need to make sure their insurance will cover it or face a out-of-network-provider charges, said Lori Ross Ross , Sir Ronald 1857-1932. British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. , a spokeswoman for Conway Regional Medical Center. The PHO said it had submitted its signed contract to Blue Cross and Blue Shield with four minor revisions, but Blue Cross rejected the offer Nov. 6. Blue Cross and Blue Shield said there were more than 40 revisions and three revised contracts before the PHO was presented in October with "its best and final offer," Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield spokeswoman Max Heuer said. Heuer also said the contract was returned without a single signature from any of the 110 physicians affiliated with the PHO. She also said Blue Cross and Blue Shield has offered every physician affiliated with he PHO, as well as the Conway Regional Medical Center, an individual contract so they can continue their participation in the health networks. |
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