SAY BY DECEMBER 5, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COME UP WITH A NEW DOCTOR IS REALLY UPSETTING. KATE: KATHLEEN IS UPSET. AND STRESSED OUT. THE CITY RESIDENT AND RETIRED STATE EMPLOYEE SAYS SHE HAS BEEN GOING TO HOPKINS DOCTORS FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, INCLUDING RECENT CANCER TREATMENT. AND THEN, LAST WEEK, SHE SAYS CAME A FROM JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE THAT THEY ARE DROPPING HER HEALTH INSURANCE, CAREFIRST, AS EARLY AS DECEMBER 5. IF NO ARGUMENT -- AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED ON A NEW CONTRACT. >> AND SO, IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE A HOSTAGE SITUATION. KATE: TO GIVE PEOPLE A HEADS UP, HOPKINS SAYS IT IS REACHED OUT TO MORE THAN 300,000 PATIENTS WITH CAREFIRST THROUGH EMAIL, MIKE TROUT, AND A VIDEO POSTED ONLINE -- MY CHART AND A VIDEO POSTED ONLINE. >> IT’S HARD FOR ANY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE WORLD COST -- WORLD-CLASS CARE AT LOW RATES. T ACCORDING TO HOPKINS IN THE LAST DECADE ALTHOUGH THE COST OF PROVIDING HEALTH CARE HAS GONE UP MORE THAN 21%, CAREFIRST HAS INCREASED PAYMENTS TO THE ACADEMIC MEDICAL INSTITUTION BY 10%. KATE: IN A STATEMENT, CAREFIRST SAYS, WE REGRET JOHNS HOPKINS DECISION TO TERMINATE OUR EXISTING CONTRACTS, AND DO NOT AGREE THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO PUT THE PEOPLE WE COLLECTIVELY SERVE IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ONGOING NEGOTIATION. ADDING A HOPE DISCUSSIONS PAN OUT AND THE PARTNERSHIP CONTINUES. KATHLEEN SAYS SHE FEELS LIKE A PAWN INSTEAD OF A PATIENT. >> I THINK THAT’S THE THING THAT’S GOING TO BE MOST UPSETTING TO PEOPLE IS THEY ARE PUTTING PATIENTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS DISCREPANCY. KATE: AN IMPORTANT POINT HERE, IF THIS DOES ACTUALLY HAPPEN ON DECEMBER 5, HOPKINS SAYS THIS DOES NOT IMPACT AN EMERGENCY VISIT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT TO A JOHNS HOPKINS EMERGENCY ROOM. HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE THEN ADMITTED AFTER GOING TO THE ER IS WHEN ANG’S BECOME MORE COMPLEX. REPORT
Johns Hopkins Medicine, CareFirst scope security agreement
Johns Hopkins Medicine and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield agreed to a caller multiyear contract, according to a associated connection released Wednesday.Archive video above: Hopkins Medicine could driblet CareFirst arsenic in-network arsenic negotiations proceed (Sept. 12)The connection said the statement ensures continued work to existing members and patients "while opening caller opportunities to make worth for the radical and communities we serve."No details of the statement were instantly disposable successful the statement, but determination volition beryllium nary interruption of service."We are pleased to denote that we person reached an statement with CareFirst to support our doctors, nurses and different caregivers successful CareFirst's network," Theodore DeWeese, interim dean of the aesculapian module and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said successful the statement. "Our extremity was to scope a solution earlier our patients had to marque changes to their attraction oregon their coverage, and we admit CareFirst's collaboration to marque that happen.""Together, CareFirst and Johns Hopkins Medicine are poised to proceed providing high-quality wellness attraction and support our absorption connected the radical who substance most: members and patients," Brian Pieninck, president and CEO of CareFirst, said successful the statement. "The interaction of our concern remains tied to advancing wellness outcomes successful the community, and this caller statement provides the operation indispensable to signifier our efforts and present connected that shared goal.""Our patients are our apical priority. We look guardant to continuing to enactment with CareFirst to champion enactment the communities we serve," Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and enforcement vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said successful the statement.This study volition beryllium updated.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield agreed to a caller multiyear contract, according to a associated connection released Wednesday.
Archive video above: Hopkins Medicine could driblet CareFirst arsenic in-network arsenic negotiations proceed (Sept. 12)
The connection said the statement ensures continued work to existing members and patients "while opening caller opportunities to make worth for the radical and communities we serve."
No details of the statement were instantly disposable successful the statement, but determination volition beryllium nary interruption of service.
"We are pleased to denote that we person reached an statement with CareFirst to support our doctors, nurses and different caregivers successful CareFirst's network," Theodore DeWeese, interim dean of the aesculapian module and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said successful the statement. "Our extremity was to scope a solution earlier our patients had to marque changes to their attraction oregon their coverage, and we admit CareFirst's collaboration to marque that happen."
"Together, CareFirst and Johns Hopkins Medicine are poised to proceed providing high-quality wellness attraction and support our absorption connected the radical who substance most: members and patients," Brian Pieninck, president and CEO of CareFirst, said successful the statement. "The interaction of our concern remains tied to advancing wellness outcomes successful the community, and this caller statement provides the operation indispensable to signifier our efforts and present connected that shared goal."
"Our patients are our apical priority. We look guardant to continuing to enactment with CareFirst to champion enactment the communities we serve," Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and enforcement vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said successful the statement.
This study volition beryllium updated.
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