Florida Blue and Baptist Health have reached a new multi-year agreement that will ensure policyholders won’t lose access to one of the city’s largest health care providers.
Action News Jax first told you Monday evening when a deal was reached in principle.
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Tens of thousands in Northeast Florida are breathing a sigh of relief now that Florida Blue and Baptist Health have reached a new multi-year agreement that will keep the hospital in the Florida Blue network.
“You know, it would have been a huge impact,” Randy Wyse with the Jacksonville Police Officers and Fire Fighters Health Insurance Trust said.
Wyse said news the two health care giants reached a deal provides comfort to as many as 2,300 local police and firefighters, who have their primary care doctor with Baptist.
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“All of our members would have to have found new doctors, we have several members going through cancer issues that would not have been able to utilize MD Anderson under the insurance,” Wyse said.