Janah Garriga’s 12-year-old daughter, Joshlyn, was diagnosed with T-cell leukemia in February. Joshlyn loves her doctors and nurses at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. But when Garriga took her daughter to an appointment in early April, she was asked to sign a letter accepting full financial responsibility for all the costs of her daughter’s treatment because the hospital recently went out of network with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi, her insurance company.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's office has signed off on Optum's acquisition of Atrius Health for $236 million, a critical step to allowing the national healthcare group to acquire the state's largest independent physician organization.
CFO Steve Zabel talks about how the Chattanooga-based company got rid of spreadsheets, what he wants job candidates to bring and why finance chiefs play an important role in promoting automation efforts.
The vast majority of Blue Cross employees received bonuses, and records obtained by WRAL Investigates show the top eight executives made an extra $9 million between them.
The woman warns that in the event someone is hospitalized, they might find that the insurance covers the facility and nurses but that their doctor is "out of network," meaning the patient has to pay more "without any say in the matter."
