Why 60,000+ Central Texans could lose access to Ascension Hospitals next month.
published a damning investigative piece on the"profits over patients" model of Ascension hospitals, news broke last week that a deal betweenBlue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
, the largest insurance company in Central Texas, is falling apart. If the two can't agree on a deal in the next three weeks, come Feb. 1 thousands of Central Texans could lose access to some of the most-relied-on hospitals and medical facilities in the area. By BCBSTX's own count, about 66,000 of their members accessed Ascension providers or facilities at some point last year, so about that many people could be affected if Ascension becomes out-of-network for their members. 's questions, but announced in a statement that they're looking for a"commitment to reasonable terms.
Although, as a nonprofit, Ascension describes profits as"excess of revenues and gains over expenses and losses" and avoids more than $1 billion each year in taxes, its CEO earnedA former CEO, who in 2007 said,"We are a [Catholic] ministry.
So, what's to become of Ascension hospitals if 29,000 MAP patients and 66,000 Blue Cross members are largely cut off from their facilities? We'll sniff around and let you know what we find out.
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