Unlike Bubba, I’m not a BCBS customer, so I don’t have a dog in their fight with Moses Cone. But I’m confident things will work out. Turns out United Healthcare broke off talks with Wake Medical Center, but guess what: they just signed a new three-year deal.
As you can imagine, BCBS is in the mix there, too, having just signed its own four-year contract with WakeMed in March, something that certainly didn’t ease the tension with United:
UnitedHealthcare, which has about 130,000 members in the Triangle, ended its relationship with WakeMed on March 1 because the hospital system wouldn’t agree to charging the insurer rates comparable to those paid by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.
Cone’s made the first move in this dance, but somehow I think they’ll work something out with BCBS.