Since an agreement has not been reached, Anthem now considers 11 Colorado hospitals and dozens of clinics and practices as out-of-network.
Posted at 9:34 PM, May 01, 2024
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — After failed contract negotiations, more than 40,000 Colorado patients with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance no longer have in-network access to nearly all of CommonSpirit’s hospitals, clinics and physicians.
The contract terminated at 11:59 p.m. on April 30, and Anthem removed CommonSpirit from its network beginning May 1.
A spokeswoman for Anthem said the insurance company has offered CommonSpirit a multi-year agreement that includes “reasonable reimbursement rates” but said, “CommonSpirit wants to unacceptably increase costs for Colorado consumers and employers.”