The resolution shields about 185,000 BCBSTX policyholders from paying higher out-of-network prices to continue seeing THR physicians and using THR facilities, according to the Cleburne Times-Review.
The agreement, which will run until 2022, quiets the ongoing feud over rates between the two parties that began in November 2017. THR and BCBSTX didn’t sign a new contract until an eleventh-hour decision on March 31, the day the previous contract expired.
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