Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas has reached an agreement with Topeka-based University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus, also owned by Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services, the insurer’s website said Dec. 24.
The agreement retains coverage for the system through 2026.
The organizations originally confirmed ongoing negotiations to Becker’s. The contract for BCBS of Kansas and the system’s St. Francis Campus was set to expire at the end of the year. Patients with respective Healthy Blue Medicaid and Medicare plans would not have been affected if St. Francis went out of network, the campus said.
St. Francis Campus had notified 9,000 patients of the possible change and said members could lose coverage at the main facility and its sites of care had a new agreement not been reached.
