CareFirst is "crushing the economic life out of medical practice," says one angry critic. In Maryland, tempers flared after CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced reimbursement cuts. The Maryland State Medical Society--known in the state as MedChi--is protesting and calling on attorney general Mike Joseph Currant to investigate how CareFirst and UnitedHealth set prices. A CareFirst spokesman responds, "set fee schedules for our providers that are fair, reasonable and competitive." Not so, says MedChi. "These giant health plans are acting like the giant 800-pound gorillas they are" comments society president Dr. George Bone.
- read this article [1] from the Baltimore Business Journal
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[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/05/08/daily21.html