Blue Cross again threatens to drop Rush from network | Crain’s
(Crain’s) — Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois is again threatening to drop Rush University Medical Center from its provider network, less than one year after the two sides struck a deal that was supposed to have made peace through 2010.
In a letter to customers dated August 2007 and obtained by Crain’s, Blue Cross says it intends to drop the Near West Side hospital from its provider network for all its health plans on Dec. 31, unless the two can reach “contract terms that have been mutually agreed upon.”