Former Insurance Commissioner and Gubernatorial candidate John Oxendine is taking on insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield in a lawsuit claiming that the company cut payments to doctors but continued charging customers the same higher rate as before. Blue Cross Blue Shield is the state’s largest insurer, covering more than three million Georgians. Things might get messy if/when the case receives class action status, and for BCBS the ship is DRIFTING…
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Expanding access to rural healthcare has been a key priority for legislators in recent years, but there are still areas where Georgia struggles. One of those is access to maternity care, where according to a study by March of Dimes, nearly half of the state’s 159 counties are considered ‘maternity care deserts.’ That means that some 159,000 women in Georgia live more than 30 minutes from a hospital that provides labor and delivery services. SINKING…
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