Blue Cross
Blue Cross patients could lose access to Tufts Medical Center
By adamg - 11/15/11 - 7:19 pmCommonHealth reports on the collapse of contract talks between the hospital and the insurer.
Tufts, Blue Cross reach doctor deal
By adamg - 1/17/09 - 11:32 amChannel 4 reports Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross/Blue Shield have reached agreement on a new contract that will let Blue Cross patients keep seeing Tufts doctors.
How to keep your Tufts doctor
By adamg - 1/8/09 - 10:12 amTufts Medical Center posts tips for Blue Cross/Blue Shield patients who don't want to lose their doctors should insurance-a-geddon happen and the two sides can't reach a contract. The main tip: Change your health plan.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield has its own page, too. Its main tip: Change your doctor.
If your body's a temple, then Partners Healthcare and Blue Cross are the moneychangers
By adamg - 12/30/08 - 8:47 amCharley on the MTA recommends the Globe's latest story on our own little health-care cartel, and sums up what this and revelations about local doctors pushing pills while getting paid by the drug companies really means:
... Health care costs, particularly in MA, are not just high because of some vague, unknowable "market forces"; it isn't just that the Health Care Invisible Hand mysteriously keeps us all under its thumb, and gosh golly, after all There's Nothing That Can Be Done.
No, it's simpler than that. We're actively, intentionally, unethically and possibly illegally getting screwed.
