UC-Irvine Healthcare Ends Contract With Blue Shield
UC-Irvine Healthcare is informing patients of UCI Medical Center and the University Physicians and Surgeons practice that it is terminating its contract with Blue Shield of California. The insurer and the health care system could not reach an agreement on reimbursement rates.
- "UCI Drops Blue Shield in Payment Dispute" (Perkes, "Healthy Living," Orange County Register, 12/1).