UPDATED Hospital groups file new motion against Horizon over Medicare plan Horizon fires back
A group of three large hospital systems have filed a motion in the states Appellate Court in its ongoing lawsuit against
The new motion is regarding the introduction of the Horizon Medicare Blue Advantage Plan. Specifically,
[The new plan] breaches their contracts with Horizon and other legal rights because it excludes them from participation in this by limiting coverage to a narrow network of select hospitals that are almost exclusively the largest systems in the state and a few hospitals affiliated with them, according to a written statement from CentraState Medical.
The system also states that the new Medicare plan will force senior citizens to find new physicians and hospitals because they will no longer be covered, and possible travel great distances to seek care, or pay all of their medical bills themselves.
Horizon, in an e-mail response, dismissed the accusations.
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The motion is being added on to a lawsuit that the three hospital systems filed last year over
The OMNIA alliance includes seven large hospitals and health systems in the state, as well as the states largest physician group,
Horizon filed a motion to dismiss the caselast April, but was denied. Four out of the seven plaintiffs dismissed their complaints and withdrew from the suit afterwards.
To avoid delaying the trial in case over the
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