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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 1d

Writing Review: October 2025 buff.ly/DK6xmOt #Writing

Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 2d

Medical Mutual vs ProMedica buff.ly/ZJvz8ni #networkcontractwatch #medicalmutual #ohio #paramounthealthcare #promedica

Medical Mutual vs ProMedica – Making it Make Sense

The contract between ProMedica and Medical Mutual of Ohio is scheduled to end on December 31, 2025, for Medical Mutual members and May 31, 2026, for Paramount H

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 2d

#Arkansas Blue Cross' discussions come as #BlueCrossBlueShield companies across the country look to scale to compete with for-profit #HealthInsurance coverage. Strategic affiliation agreements are not new for #Cambia, a group companies formed in 1996.

Arkansas Blue Cross still exploring affiliation agreement with Oregon health company | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer, is continuing to explore a "strategic affiliation agreement" with Cambia Health Solutions, a nonprofit health insurance…

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #Hallowtide!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: Democratic leaders huddled with faith leaders on Capitol Hill today, with clergy decrying the potential halting of SNAP benefits during the shutdown and warning about the human cost of allowing healthcare subsidies to expire.

A pastor offered this prayer: religionnews.com/2025/10/30/f...

The Rev. Ryan Stoess, a United Methodist Church pastor from Louisville, Kentucky, was asked to pray for the group over the lawsuit.

“God, we lift up the court hearing that is happening … at a time when we are holding food over the heads of poor people so that we can take away their health care,” Stoess said. “God help us.”

He added, “When the cruelty is the point, when the cruelty is in our face, God give us your mercy.”

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

Where did I say that? I personally think it's an ominous sign of things to come (they're beginning to isolate themselves from the violence they know is coming) and NOT a good thing.

My post text, by the way, was just quotes from the article.

Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest issue is that many payers list multiple rates for the same procedure, with no way to distinguish between them. #PriceTransparency #HealthInsurance #MedicalCosts

Health plan price transparency still needs work, report finds

To be totally transparent: We still don’t know how much a procedure costs.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

What’s the reason for the increase in premiums since Obamacare began? [T]he real problem is we can’t say for sure. #ACA #MedicalCosts #HealthInsurance #PriceTransparency #opinion

If taxpayers must keep subsidizing health care, they deserve to see the prices

Empathy for families facing rate hikes and a demand for fiscal responsibility are not mutually exclusive.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

UnitedHealthcare vs Phoenix Children’s Hospital | 30 Oct 2025 buff.ly/bVRiyWX #networkcontractwatch #arizona #phoenixchildrenshospital #unitedhealthcare

UnitedHealthcare vs Phoenix Children’s Hospital | 30 Oct 2025 – Making it Make Sense

Although the contract between Phoenix Children's Hospital and UnitedHealthcare does not expire until May 2026, both are reaching out to patients now due to the

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

Only in Eastern NC: Pigs in the road cause traffic to slow down, vehicle crashes into the back of Craven County School bus #ENC #amusing

Pigs in the road cause traffic to slow down, vehicle crashes into the back of Craven County School bus

Highway Patrol says two people in the vehicle and one on the bus had minor injuries.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

There are scattered examples from previous administrations of #Cabinet members residing on bases. But there is no record of so many political appointees living on military installations. #Security #Polarization #PoliticalViolence [Gift Article] buff.ly/iSx55QI

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 3d

Aetna vs UConn Health | 30 Oct 2025 buff.ly/gygfuPS #networkcontractwatch #aetna #connecticut #uconnhealth

Aetna vs UConn Health | 30 Oct 2025 – Making it Make Sense

Negotiations between UConn Health and Aetna continue. The current contract expires on November 30.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

BCBS of Minnesota vs Aspirus St Luke | 29 Oct 2025 buff.ly/znY0ZaO #networkcontractwatch #aspirushealth #bcbsofminnesota #minnesota

BCBS of Minnesota vs Aspirus St Luke | 29 Oct 2025 – Making it Make Sense

Aspirus Health St. Luke's has announced plans to terminate their contract with BCBS of Minnesota as of December 31, 2025.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 5d

It is a choice to give Argentina a $40 billion bailout

It is a choice to use ICE in a way which terrorizes US citizens

It is a choice to tear down the East Wing of the White House and spend $350 million on a ballroom

Just as it is a choice to starve 42 million Americans by refusing to fund SNAP

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Patrick, Not Pat @patricknotpat.bsky.social · 4d

If you plan to help out the hungry, do so without a camera.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

Cigna vs Augusta Health | 29 Oct 2025 buff.ly/RgssShs #networkcontractwatch #augustahealth #cigna #virginia

Cigna vs Augusta Health | 29 Oct 2025 – Making it Make Sense

Augusta Health has not yet reached an agreement with Cigna to extend the provider contract expiring December 31, 2025.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

UHC vs Fairview Health | 29 Oct 2025 buff.ly/dMr4Ph5 #networkcontractwatch #fairviewhealth #minnesota #unitedhealthcare

Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

Cigna vs Lexington Health | 29 Oct 2025 buff.ly/LMPJKcK #networkcontractwatch #cigna #lexingtonhealth #southcarolina

Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

Hospital bills for a medically unnecessary out-of-network procedure, without asking patient to sign a #consent for it. #HealthInsurance quite reasonably balks at paying. Why is this the carrier's fault? #upcoding #ProviderGreed

Doctor Tripped Up by $64K Bill for Ankle Surgery and Hospital Stay - KFF Health News

A doctor in Colorado became the patient after an accident totaled her car and sent her to the operating room. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the…

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 4d

Introducing the Network Contract Watch buff.ly/kbJFkjt #about #providercontracting

Introducing the Network Contract Watch – Making it Make Sense

What is this site's Network Contract Watch and why does it matter?

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 5d

PacificSource vs St Charles Health System | 28 Oct 2025 buff.ly/bQNkuSN #networkcontractwatch #oregon #pacificsource #stcharleshealthsystem

PacificSource vs St Charles Health System | 28 Oct 2025 – Making it Make Sense

PacificSource and St. Charles Health System continue to negotiate a network contract to replace one ending on December 31, 2025.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, seriously?! #Tylenol #acetaminophen #Austism #Litigation #WastingTaxpayerDollars #Texas

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files Tylenol lawsuit over autism claims

Tylenol maker Kenvue said Texas' claims "lack legal merit and scientific support" and vowed to defend itself in litigation.

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 5d

The survey said ineligible #claims included ones payable under Medicare or Medicaid, claims that were already resolved, disputes with in-network providers and claims subject to a state’s surprise billing legislation. #NoSurprisesAct #HealthInsurance

Insurers claim 39% of 'No Surprises' disputes ineligible for arbitration - Becker's Payer Issues | Payer News

Health plans found that 39% of provider’s surprise billing disputes were ineligible for arbitration and never should have been submitted to the federal independent dispute resolution process,…

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 5d

Consumers across the political spectrum are largely in favor of new legal protections against #MedicalDebt, and the majority are laying blame at the feet of the #HealthInsurance industry. Seems I 've got some educatin' to do around here...

Insurers most often blamed for medical debt, but providers trusted to protect patient interests: survey

U.S. | Support for more state-level medical debt protections is prevalent regardless of respondents' political affiliation, as is a willingness to blame the current health insurance system as well as…

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Catherine C.E. 🕊️🧡 @collingwest.bsky.social · 5d

If #Congress does manage to strike a deal in the coming days or weeks to extend some #subsidies, there could be unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval to this year’s #OpenEnrollment. #SoundTheAlarm

A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal - KFF Health News

Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and…

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