More Evidence of the Failure of PPO’s – “4th Largest City Has No PPO’s”

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Seth Chandler, a law professor at University of Houston’s Health Law Policy Institute, put it even more bluntly: “It’s dramatic that the fourth-largest city in the country does not have a PPO.”

In 2015 there were 19 PPOs available in Harris County, 12 from Blue Cross Blue Shield and seven from Cigna Health Insurance, Chandler said. Now there is none.

“We found that the individual PPO plan was no longer sustainable at the cost it was being offered,” the company (BCBS) said. “Because we want to make sure that our plans are affordable, we decided to not offer individual PPO plans in 2016.”

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