BCBS of Texas to stop reimbursing nonemergent ER visits

(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Starting Aug. 6, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas will no longer pay for out-of-network emergency room visits in which the insurer determines the patient should have sought treatment elsewhere, according to the Houston Chronicle. Continue reading article here…

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