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MCO Drops HHAs After Decades Of Service

Published on Fri Jan 22, 2016

Pittsburgh-based managed care organization Highmark recently cut eight home health agencies out of its commercial and Medicare Advantage networks for 2016, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I’ve probably been 30 years with Highmark,” said Connie Slampak, administrator for Abby Home Health Services in Uniontown, Pa., one of the HHAs dropped, reports the newspaper. The Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate first notified [...]
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