Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University Medical Center reached an agreement this summer to make sure patients could continue paying in-network prices. But that deal didn’t include members using Medicare Advantage. Those patients will lose in-network status at the end of the year.
About half of Tennessee’s rural hospitals have dropped chemotherapy over the past decade
The drop in chemotherapy services is especially concerning because of Tennessee’s high cancer rates, as an estimated 43,000 residents will get a diagnosis this year.
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