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Top Local Story. Out of time and out of network: Piedmont, Blue Cross fail to reach deal. Today, Easter Sunday, Piedmont Healthcare doctors and hospitals became out-of-network providers for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia members. All Local Stories ...

The partnership's first objective will be to see if the technology can make sure the list of doctors and hospitals within a health plan's directory of network providers stays accurate and current. The project is designed to address business problems for multiple companies that share information, Jacobs said.

MINNEAPOLIS — UnitedHealth Group is joining forces with a rival health insurer and one of the nation's largest lab testing companies to see if blockchain technology can improve health care data. On Monday, UnitedHealth announced the pilot project in conjunction with Kentucky-based Humana, New ...

On Sunday, Piedmont Healthcare doctors and hospitals became out-of-network providers for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia members. ... We urge consumers with questions about this network provider change to call us at the toll-free member services number on their Blue Cross and Blue Shield of ...

The company's tool — which is not some super nerdy April Fool's joke — will allow users to shorten load times of web pages and keep some data away from network providers. Cloudfare boasts it will be “the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service.” In layman's terms, by punching the number 1 ...

We urge consumers with questions about this network provider change to call us at the toll-free member services number on their Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia ID card, or at bcbsga.com to view a list of providers in their area. Importantly, we want to remind our consumers that emergency care is ...

What happens when the physical devices currently used to support networking functions become virtual—and so do the user end-points? Network providers are now realizing the level of complexity and variability this type of demand will introduce, and that their current networks are not up to the challenge.

LeoSat, which is launching a constellation of up to 108 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellites, has entered into an agreement with Signalhorn, a provider of hybrid network solutions for enterprise and government customers. According to LeoSat, its system of LEO communications satellites can ...

Additionally, the law requires healthcare providers to inform consumers about the increased financial responsibility when choosing services from an out-of-network provider. Patients receiving services from out-of-network providers may still be responsible for co-insurance, co-payments, or deductibles.

That could suggest that device manufacturers are coming to terms with the fact that consumers are no longer looking to replace their phones as often and are more focused on getting better deals with network providers. Impressing consumers is certainly getting much harder, especially when today's devices ...

As House Health Committee chair, I've worked on legislation to help recruit and retain physician talent in the state, including expanding graduate medical education, loan repayment and streamlining licensure processes. Among these positive steps and other industry changes, consumers today have more ...

Its combination of higher-speed connectivity services, increased fiber capacity and fewer wavelengths to manage, make it an enticing proposition for the network providers, OTT service providers and web-scale giants of the world. And with our appetites for bandwidth and speed only increasing by the day, ...

Non-network provider means that a particular service provider does not have a contract with TRICARE. This means the beneficiary will pay higher out-of-pocket costs. Network, TRICARE authorized providers do have a contract with TRICARE, in which they agree to file claims for beneficiaries. Out-of-pocket ...

Blue Shield of California on Tuesday announced that beginning this year it will require network providers, including participating accountable care organizations, to agree to participate in Manifest MedEx, a nonprofit health information network that is creating comprehensive, real-time digital health records ...

The bill, A-2039, requires hospitals to disclose to patients which out-of-network providers will be charging them before the patient undergoes treatment or surgery. The bill also allows for a state-regulated, binding arbitration process between patients and out-of-network providers to settle costs for an ...

Datacom has developed a subscription, cloud-based IoT management service that will roll out in partnership with a Sydney IoT network provider to local councils across the country. SenseTo is a software-as-a-service platform that provides overview and management of multiple IoT assets from a single ...

A law to protect Oregon consumers from surprise out-of-network medical bills went into effect Thursday. So-called “balance billing” happens when you go to an in-network provider, but unbeknownst to you, the radiologist, emergency room physician or someone else, isn't included in your insurance network.

In an increasingly mobile world, network providers are grappling with a data explosion. Millions of mobile users are running video and other applications that require significant bandwidth. At the same time, those providers are saddled with legacy systems and protocols that leave them bloated and slow.

The key is that, in the absence of a contracted price negotiated between the out-of-network provider and the insurance company, the law would make companies accept rates that come from an independent database. The database, which apparently is the FAIR Health database set up by the state of New ...

HB 2114, now Engrossed Substitute House Bill (ESHB) 2114, addresses the balanced-billing problem by making out-of-network providers and insurance carriers ... The bill requires the carrier and out of network provider to negotiate a price based on either the median in-network rate for the same service, the median out-of ...

The leading network providers present in the market have experienced mixed results in 2017. As per consumer perspective, two-thirds of people have been with their network over two years, and a vast majority of customer is satisfied with their network provider. Apart from that data remains the leading ...