Blue Shield and Adventist Health Sign Retroactive Agreement
Adventist Health Ukiah Valley
The recent announcement of a retroactive agreement between Blue Shield of California and Adventist Health, effective from December 1, 2023, comes as a relief to many in Mendocino County. This agreement ensures in-network access to all 18 Adventist hospitals across California for Blue Shield members, a crucial development given the recent uncertainty faced by patients when Adventist Health informed them that its contract with insurer Blue Shield of California was set to expire on December 1.
The situation left many patients out of network. But the agreement remedies the problem.
With 26 hospitals and over 400 clinics, Adventist Health is a significant healthcare provider. Blue Shield of California, serving 4.8 million members, is a major insurer in the state. Their agreement impacts a large number of Californians, underlining the importance of stable and transparent relationships between healthcare providers and insurers.
The recent agreement between Adventist Health and Blue Shield of California is a step towards stabilizing healthcare access in the state.
Press release from Adventist and Blue Shield:
Blue Shield of California and Adventist Health have reached a new agreement that provides Blue Shield members in-network access to Adventist hospitals.
The arrangement includes all 18 Adventist hospitals across California and is effective December 1, 2023.
“As a mission-driven health plan, our goal is for our members to have access to quality care that’s sustainably affordable,” said Aliza Arjoyan, Blue Shield’s senior vice president of Provider Partnerships and Network Management. “Adventist Health has been a part of Blue Shield’s network of providers for a long time, and I look forward to continued collaboration with the hospital system.”
“We are pleased to continue our long-working relationship with Blue Shield of California,” said Kerry L. Heinrich, president and CEO of Adventist Health. “Our mission calls us to provide access to high-quality care close to home in the communities we serve, and we are excited to continue caring for Blue Shield members.”
Blue Shield serves more than 4.8 million members in California through network relationships with about 350 hospitals and more than 122,000 providers across the state.
About Adventist Health
Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 90 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care, including 26 acute care facilities. Founded on Adventist heritage and values, Adventist Health provides care in hospitals, clinics, home care, and hospice agencies in both rural and urban communities. Our compassionate and talented team of 37,000 includes employees, physicians, allied health professionals and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope. We are committed to staying true to our heritage by providing patient-centered, quality care. Together, we are transforming the healthcare experience with an innovative and whole-person focus on physical, mental, spiritual and social healing to support community well-being.
About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with more than 4.8 million members, over 7,500 employees and more than $24 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $97 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities.
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Earlier: Adventist Health’s Contract Termination with Blue Shield Leaves Mendocino County Patients Stranded
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Adventist Health is run by crooks… AH believes that lies are not lies if the lie benefits the organization…
Adventist Health treats their employees like slaves, runs repressive and exploitative schedules, believes in “working their employees to death”, and AH refuses to replace employees that have moved on…
Adventist Health needs staff at all their locations, but their “salary range” is a moving target, and it is their intention to misinform, delude and pay their employees as little as possible…
Adventist Health is a poor quality employment experience, and they expect their employees to join their festive organization, tithe and participate in their lovely rituals…
You will never, ever, get a dime of overtime from Adventist Health…
Adventist Health preys upon weak and dying patients, extending unnecessary care and exploiting payers for AH’s own enrichment…
A stay in an AH facility will expose you to burned out employees, unlicensed personnel, some of the oldest Physicians in the industry, and Nurses who will “pray with you” in lieu of care…
Adventist Health is an extremely predatory and sick corporation, whose only goal is to get money out of payers…
This annual game is outrageous, and, we received a letter from Blue Shield two days ago, telling us that we would not be able to use AH in the future…
Like I said earlier, most of their facilities are run down, understaffed, and managed by evil administrators who are paid million dollar salaries to lie about absolutely everything…
I worked for them twice, at St Helena and Willits…
There will not be a third time…
Don’t get me started on the Post Office.
A.H. benefits nobody on the north coast. Except those who are members of their cult in the fortuna area where they’ve taken over.
And remember:
They pull this shit with the contracts every year…
Also remember:
If you go into the ER with “chest pain”, your STAT Treponin, CPK, etc results may take 3 hours, because the 1 person working in the lab, is in the middle of running all the Chemistry from outlying clinics and the Hospital in Paradise, which is closed, but the Clinics are open and the lab-work is couriered all over the place…
Things I saw, working at Adventist Health:
Patients undergoing surgery, before their lab-work was even drawn by the Phlebotomist… Nurses filing complaints concerning “patient safety” which were ignored…
A patient with “no brain activity” being kept alive indefinitely in the ICU, with diagnostic testing continuing…
Many patients were given Endarterectomies, whether they needed it or not… Cardiac procedures were suspended by Medicare entirely, and AH was fined millions…
And, on and on…
Management Techniques taught by Adventist Health:
Harassment, verbal and physical
Gaslighting (they call it “rounding”)
Changing the schedule and then saying the schedule wasn’t changed…
They refuse to investigate safety violations, or deal with harassment by fellow workers. They appear to encourage employees to abuse and mistreat their fellow employees…
Adventist Health has no regard for State and Federal laws, and often breaks the law as ordinary practice.
Remember:
It’s all about the money, to Adventist Health, and their motto is
“Screw the Public and the Employees, we just want your money…”
Haven’t heard our congressman utter a word about deplorable healthcare in his district, (except where he lives), and he won’t face any of these or other tough issues important to the NorCal coast. Right now he’s working on the plan for stealing more Eel river water for his grape, growth and greed cronies before the election.
Huffman is a pandering and feckless politician…
Remember, christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.
Just read the comments.
WOW
My experience with AH was the polar opposite.
Oh well
This decision for AdventistHealth to drop Blue Shield was callous and disgusting. If health care providers need more money, they need to look within and chop from the top. Say it with me:
#NoMillionairesInHealthcare
How many of those against AH pay for their own insurance or receive it through an employer?
No accusations, just curious.
My advice; drive a short distance South and receive real healthcare at a reasonable in network cost from Sutter Health! After Adventists price gouging and last round of letters sent out; I’m boycotting them Indefinitely. I suggest everyone that can do the same. Go to Sutter doctors in Healdsburg, Windsor, or Santa Rosa. Adventist in Ukiah quoted me $2,800 for an in network MRI of my knee. Sutter did it for 540. And my co-pay was 108. We told the Board of Sioervisors to block Adventists’s monopoly in our county but citizens were assured that because Adventist is a nonprofit Christian organization they were not in it for the money. I call BS on not in it for the money. Now Adventist owns all three hospitals, most clinics, 95% of dr offices. All imaging and labs. Let the “Hunger Games” to affordable and quality healthcare begin. They don’t have to provide affordable or quality healthcare when they are the o ly option in the county and they know that. We are not the only rural community healthcare that Adventist has monopolized. This is what they do to maximize their profits. Fir those who can drive for medical; go South.