Tufts Medical Center makes deal with Blue Cross

March 30, 2009

Blue Cross Blue Shield has reached an agreement on a new contract with Tufts Medical Center, where physicians had threatened to stop accepting members of the state’s largest insurer. Doctors at the Boston hospital previously had said they would no longer accept some Blue Cross members after Jan. 31 because the insurer refused to pay them at “a reasonable rate.”
The two sides said Tufts and its affiliated physicians had agreed to join Blue Cross’s “Alternative Quality Contract,” which is designed to improve care and moderate costs.
They said the new deal means there will be no disruption of service at Tufts for Blue Cross members.
The agreement was reached after nearly a year of negotiations.

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