Conway Regional PHO Signs Health Plan Contract. (Inside Business).The Conway Regional Physician Hospital Organization and Arkansas 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. ended a standoff Dec. 10 by signing a contract that will allow the Conway physicians to remain as in-network providers in the 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 Arkansas' FirstSource PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there health plans. "Our goal all along has been to preserve an HMO and PPO network relationship with CRPHO while still protecting the best interests of our customers in the Faulkner County area," David Bridges, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for Health Advantage, said in a news release. "As always, we are committed to having local physicians in our networks to serve the needs of our members." In late November, negotiations between the PHO and the networks began again after members of the business community "'offered to unofficially mediate the impasse and provide an outside perspective to the contract language," according to a news release by BCBS BCBS Blue Cross/Blue Shield BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BCBS Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS Bay City Baptist School BCBS Bishop Cotton Boys School (Bangalore, India) BCBS Bar Code Business Software and the PRO. Talks between the two groups broke down at the end of October when the PHO wanted four more changes to a contract that the networks had said was their best and final offer. Each side accused the other of rejecting the contract, which would have left approximately 30,000 patients without network coverage in Faulkner County. BCBS owns USAble and shares ownership of Health Advantage with Baptist Health. The PHO includes Conway Regional Medical Center. |
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