It remains to be seen if a healthcare crisis in Indian River County can be averted.
After months of negotiation, Cleveland Clinic Florida and Florida Blue health insurance company are at a stalemate over the terms of an agreement that would keep Vero Beach’s only hospital in-network for Florida Blue members.
It is hard to believe the five-hospital system – soon to be six hospitals when Cleveland’s boutique West Palm hospital opens at CityPlace – would drop Florida Blue and its nearly 6 million members as potential customers. But a handful of other hospitals have already left the Florida Blue network, unwilling to accept the reimbursement rates and terms offered by the tight-fisted insurance company…