Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Tenet South Florida Settle on Contracts for 15 South Florida Hospitals
Posted on: Thursday, 14 July 2005, 18:01 CDT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Tenet South Florida today announced an agreement involving 15 Tenet hospitals in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. The contract agreement follows several weeks of negotiations and the two-week extension of an original June 30 contract termination deadline.
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"Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida is pleased that we have reached an agreement with Tenet South Florida that will benefit our members, Tenet's patients and the entire community," said Barry B. Schwartz, M.D., BCBSF vice president, network management. "This was a complex negotiation and we regret any concern the situation may have created for our members. Our focus throughout this process has been on coming to an agreement that will provide our members with access to affordable health care solutions."
BCBSF negotiates contracts on behalf of approximately 413,000 members in the three South Florida counties, in a wide variety of health plan designs, including Medicare and traditional indemnity insurance.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida is a leader in Florida's health industry. BCBSF and its subsidiaries serve more than 7.1 million people. Since 1944, the company has been dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of all those it serves by offering an array of choices. BCBSF is a not-for-profit, policyholder-owned, tax-paying mutual company. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., BCBSF is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. For more information concerning BCBSF, please see its Web site at http://www.bcbsfl.com/ .
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
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