James Blazar, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for Hartford Healthcare and Hartford Hospital, said last week that a requested 30 percent reimbursement increase over two years was needed to covers the health care provider’s costs.
“Covering our costs is the responsible thing to do for the community,” Blazar said. “We will do everything in our power that our patients won’t have any negative impact from all of this.”
Aetna told 195,000 health care plan members that its contract with Hartford Hospital, Windham Hospital and MidState Medical Center is likely to be terminated after it refused to accept the increase.
