Georgia Seeks New Enrollment For Patients Caught In WellStar, Anthem Contract Rift

Federal health officials are reviewing a Georgia request for a new enrollment period for insurance exchange members who use WellStar Health System doctors and hospitals.

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck, in his request to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cited what he called “misleading, inaccurate and unusual presentations’’ by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for its Pathways exchange plan.

Consumers say that when they signed up late last year for Anthem coverage, WellStar was listed as part of the insurer’s network. In February, though, the contract between Anthem and WellStar for the Pathways health plan ended.