State employees in the Texas panhandle are scrambling to find a doctor, with some forced to travel for hours to see a specialist, after the Employees Retirement System of Texas switched their insurance plan on 1 September. one of people, now under the Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthSelect plan, are learning some doctors won't accept it. "I think when doctors hear Blue Cross HMO they automatically assume it's the Obamacare network and they don't want to take that one because the reimbursement is so poor," said Bryan Williams, president of Moxie Healthcare Solutions. ERS is said to be working to find a solution.
State employees in the Texas panhandle are scrambling to find a doctor, with some forced to travel for hours to see a specialist, after the Employees Retirement System of Texas switched their insurance plan on 1 September. Thousands of people, now under the Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthSelect plan, are learning some doctors won't accept it. "I think when doctors hear Blue Cross HMO they automatically assume it's the Obamacare network and they don't want to take that one because the reimbursement is so poor," said Bryan Williams, president of Moxie Healthcare Solutions. ERS is said to be working to find a solution.