Piedmont, Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Ga. Fail To Reach Deal

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April 2nd, 2018

Neither side – Piedmont Healthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia — offered a prediction Sunday about how long it would take to get a new deal done. Typically, such negotiations lead to a contract just before the old agreement expires, but it didn’t happen in this case.

Alison Guillory / WABE

On Easter Sunday, Piedmont Healthcare doctors and hospitals became out-of-network providers for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia members.

Round-the-clock negotiations failed to bring an agreement on a new contract between Blue Cross, the state’s largest health insurer, and the rapidly expanding Piedmont system.

The old contract expired at midnight Saturday night.

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