{"id":17832,"date":"2024-12-06T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:31:04","slug":"anthem-bcbs-reverses-policy-that-would-have-limited-anesthesia-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17832","title":{"rendered":"Anthem BCBS Reverses Policy That Would Have Limited Anesthesia Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials had planned to roll out the changes nationwide but said they were misunderstood.<\/p>\n

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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, a major health insurer, on Thursday rolled back a policy change that would have capped payments for anesthesia for patients, and would have denied claims altogether if any given procedure exceeded a time limit.<\/p>\n

The policy, which was to be tested before a national rollout, prompted controversy \u2014 first from anesthesiologists and then, after a flurry of media reports, from legislators in Connecticut and New York, where the policy was to go into effect in February.<\/p>\n

Anesthesiologists said that the change in reimbursement was unprecedented and would have overturned a formula standard since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo other commercial health insurer, no government payer, Medicare or Medicaid, has ever done anything like this and come up with an arbitrary time limit for anesthesia services,\u201d Dr. Don Arnold, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSurgery and other procedures can take variable lengths of time,\u201d he added. \u201cCertainly procedures and techniques are standardized, but patient needs are unique and they require variable amounts of time, care and attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: \u201cOutrageous. I\u2019m going to make sure New Yorkers are protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield officials had planned to roll out the changes nationwide but said they were misunderstood.Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, a major health insurer, on Thursday rolled back a policy change that would have capped payments for anesthesia for patients, and would have denied claims altogether if any given procedure exceeded a time limit.The policy, which was to be tested before a national rollout, prompted controversy \u2014 first from anesthesiologists and then, after a flurry of media reports, from legislators in Connecticut and New York, where the policy was to go into effect in February.Anesthesiologists said that the change in reimbursement was unprecedented and would have overturned a formula standard since the 1990s.\u201cNo other commercial health insurer, no government payer, Medicare or Medicaid, has ever done anything like this and come up with an arbitrary time limit for anesthesia services,\u201d Dr. Don Arnold, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said.\u201cSurgery and other procedures can take variable lengths of time,\u201d he added. \u201cCertainly procedures and techniques are standardized, but patient needs are unique and they require variable amounts of time, care and attention.\u201dGov. Kathy Hochul of New York wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: \u201cOutrageous. I\u2019m going to make sure New Yorkers are protected.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17830,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}