Word: bluecross
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...greatest successes has been in mainstreaming Medicaid patients, who no longer see doctors at so-called Medicaid mills. This too was accomplished cunningly. The architects of TennCare created a controversial rule called the "cram down." A doctor who opts out of TennCare is not permitted to participate in BlueCross and BlueShield's commercial network, thereby losing a huge amount of potential business from approximately 1.2 million non-Medicaid people, including state and municipal employees and teachers. Initially, almost one-third of the doctors in the BlueCross and BlueShield network refused to join TennCare, but most have since signed...