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El Camino Health severs ties with country s second largest health insurer
Uploaded: Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 4:42 pm
El Camino Health terminated its contract with Anthem Blue Cross last month over price disputes, suddenly putting the hospital out of network for those covered by the country s second-largest health insurer.
But it s not the first time and it s unlikely to be the last, as many Bay Area hospitals are finding it tough to live with Anthem s price-cutting tactics.
Rising health care costs are at the heart of these clashes, which are happening with surprising regularity. El Camino and Stanford Health Care have both temporarily dropped Anthem at least three times over the last decade, along with MarinHealth last year and Sutter Health in 2019.
El Camino Health severs ties with country s second largest health insurer
Uploaded: Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 1:52 pm
El Camino Health terminated its contract with Anthem Blue Cross last month over price disputes, suddenly putting the hospital out of network for those covered by the country s second-largest health insurer.
But it s not the first time and it s unlikely to be the last, as many Bay Area hospitals are finding it tough to live with Anthem s price-cutting tactics.
Rising health care costs are at the heart of these clashes, which are happening with surprising regularity. El Camino and Stanford Health Care have both temporarily dropped Anthem at least three times over the last decade, along with MarinHealth last year and Sutter Health in 2019.
The CDC is monitoring the situation, putting the Bay Area on its list of growing hot spots.
The agency says cases in the region have gone up 85% in the past seven days. But we re starting with lower case counts. So a big jump isn t expected to overwhelm the healthcare system.
There are also some new vaccine mandates.
San Francisco is now requiring all health care workers to get the shot by September 15. The previous requirement was when the FDA fully approved one of the vaccines.
Stanford Health Care is requiring staff to be vaccinated by August 15.
Saying in a statement, “We join an increasing number of health systems nationally in taking this action with urgency, particularly in light of the emerging threat of highly infectious variants.”
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Getting the common cold in 2021 can be confusing. Is it a cold, allergies or COVID? Several infectious disease experts in the Bay Area say this July, colds are coming back with a vengeance. COVID tests are easily available and that s good because experts say the delta variant is presenting with symptoms like the common cold.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Some people this summer are having to ask themselves if it s a cold or the coronavirus they re dealing with.