Haywood Regional Medical Center loses Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina.
March 1st, 2008 Categories: Hot Local Topics
Haywood Regional Medical Center, celebrating 80 years of providing health care to Haywood County, suffered another serious setback this week, agreeing to drop out of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina while dealing with the cancellation of Medicaid and Medicare coverage as reported here earlier this week.
“The moves complicate efforts by Haywood Regional - Western North Carolina’s third-largest hospital - to recover from the loss of Medicaid and Medicare funding.
Any insurance that pulls out … is further problems, in terms of our recovery,” said Dr. Nancy Freeman, chairwoman of the hospital board. “Anything that hurts money flow to the hospital is not good.”
Read more about the latest developments.
BuckingtheRealEstateTrend wonders if the “anonymous tip” reported in The Mountaineer could have been a result of the recent Emergency Room services upheaval. Click here to read just one of the stories, this one from February 2005, which provides a taste of the discontent regarding HRMC and emergency services in 2005.






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