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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt we’re getting an accurate story here. Likely some Hopkins-affiliated doctor is threatening to stop being a preferred provider, and wrong a vague email intentionally suggesting Hopkins as a whole was pulling out. That’s not realistic. BCBS is too big, and most of the other private insurance companies don’t reimburse any better.

I have no pity for Hopkins, though. Ever try to transfer a patient there? They won’t tell you whether they have beds until you tell them what insurance the patient has. Funny how they almost always have beds when I have a BCBS patient but they never have beds when I have a Medicaid patient. And their doctors are horrible to work with. UMMC and Georgetown are much better to work with.[/quote]

Ummm no. Do you realize who sent the email?

Read the post with the email and look up who sent it.

This is huge news and a very bad loss for carefirst holders.[/quote]

That sounds like a pretty standard letter that a lot of systems and providers send out when preferred provider agreements are being renegotiated. Is it sleazy for Hopkins to do that? Sure. But they’re not the only ones that send those out.

Plenty of other doctors and hospitals around if they somehow went through with their threat. Though again, that’s exceedingly unlikely.[/quote]

How much the insurance lobby pay you to ruin everyone's lives? [/quote]

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