Monday, August 27th, 2018 at
2:40pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lovelace Health
System has announced that its medical group and hospitals will now provide
in-network services for Presbyterian Centennial Plan Medicaid members as well
as those members formerly insured under UnitedHealthcare of New Mexico’s
Centennial Care Medicaid plan.
The partnership is effective Sept. 1
and will affect about 303,000 members, according to information provided by
Lovelace.
Those individuals will soon be able
to schedule appointments with any Lovelace Medical Group physician and use
Lovelace hospitals as an in-nework service.
Earlier this month, Presbyterian
said it would acquire 85,000 Medicaid members insured under United as well as
340 United employees.
The deal was announced after the
dismissal of United’s appeal against the New Mexico Human Services Department,
which the company filed after it failed to secure a Centennial Care 2.0
Medicaid contract during the state’s procurement process.
A Lovelace spokeswoman said the
partnership between Lovelace and Presbyterian will exist “for the foreseeable
future” and carry into the new year with the start of Centennial Care 2.0.
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