After weeks of reportedly tense negotiations ahead of a March 1 deadline, Florida Blue and Cleveland Clinic Florida last Friday afternoon struck a deal to keep local residents with Florida Blue health insurance in-network at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital – but details of the agreement are still murky.
The agreement took shape perilously close to the Saturday deadline. Vero Beach 32963 learned about the good news at 2:09 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 and at 3:36 p.m. patients who have presented a Florida Blue insurance card at a Cleveland Clinic facility got an email announcing the resolution to the corporate standoff.
It is not clear how many months or years the agreement spans. We asked but got this opaque answer:…