7 recently inked payer-provider contracts

These are seven recently inked network contracts between hospitals and health systems and payers reported by Becker's since Oct. 7:

1. UnitedHealthcare and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health reached a multi-year in-network agreement Nov. 1 following a six month impasse.
   
   
2. BCBS Texas and Amarillo-based Baptist St. Anthony Health System reached an in-network agreement Oct. 31. The health system would have gone out of network by Dec. 7 if the two did not agree on reimbursement rates.
   
   
3. CareFirst BCBS and Johns Hopkins Medicine signed a multiyear contract Oct. 26 following a dispute over reimbursement rates that would have left hundreds of thousands of people and Maryland state employees out of network.
   
   
4. BCBS Tennessee and CHI Memorial Hospital Georgia signed an in-network, effective Nov. 1. BCBS Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, dual-eligible and commercial plans will all be in-network with the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based hospital system's locations in Georgia.
   
   
5. ProMedica's Paramount Health Plan in Toledo, Ohio and McLaren St. Luke's hospital in Maumee signed an in-network agreement Oct. 11. The dispute stretched back to 2020 and involved a lawsuit from McLaren against ProMedica, which has now been settled.
   
   
6. BCBS Texas and Farmers Branch, Texas-based Southwestern Health Resources said Oct 4 they signed an in-network contract following a dispute over reimbursement rates.
   
   
7. Aetna and Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant Health have ended their dispute over reimbursement rates and signed an in-network contract that went into effect Oct. 1. The previous contract between Aetna and Covenant expired Aug. 31, leaving almost 9,000 individuals without in-network coverage.