PORTLAND — Dan Morin of Scarborough recently joined MaineHealth as director of government affairs. He will serve as the key resource for state legislators, and Maine’s congressional delegation and other stakeholders on health care policy and issues facing MaineHealth and its clients. Morin comes to MaineHealth from the Maine Turnpike Authority where he oversaw all […]
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Maine Medical Center seeks to open retail pharmacy
MaineHealth is seeking to open retail pharmacies at Maine Medical Center in Portland and Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast. The pharmacies would be on the grounds of each hospital, but would operate as retail businesses and be open to any consumers, not just hospital patients. The health care system’s plans were revealed in two […]
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Anthem defends proposed insurance changes
AUGUSTA — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield defended its proposal Monday to transfer about 9,000 Maine residents from their current coverage plans to plans that exclude several hospitals, a move that has been criticized as limiting people’s ability to choose their doctors. Anthem officials told Maine insurance regulators — who will now decide whether […]
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Crowd shows anger at Anthem insurance session in Auburn
AUBURN — For more than three hours, they were angry and they were heard. Hundreds of people packed Kirk Hall at Central Maine Community College on Thursday night for a comment session on Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s controversial new insurance proposal that would force individual policy holders into a network with MaineHealth providers. […]
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L. Coburn: Keep health care local
It is appalling what Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and MaineHealth are doing, and shame on the Maine Bureau of Insurance for approving it. Since the public cannot depend on those three entities to do what is right for central and southern Maine, people must do it for them. The public has to get off […]
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State approves MaineHealth/Anthem insurance plan
LEWISTON — The Bureau of Insurance has granted Anthem’s request to partner with MaineHealth, the state’s largest health-care organization, to offer a new insurance plan for the upcoming Affordable Care Act insurance exchange. The plan locks out Central Maine Medical Center, Bridgton Hospital, Rumford Hospital and their affiliated specialists, except in cases of patients seeking […]