Negotiations with Medical City Healthcare in North Texas Nearing the End

March 27, 2019

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) continues to attempt to reach new agreements with Medical City Healthcare (Medical City), part of HCA Healthcare, a Nashville-based, for-profit operator of health care facilities in 21 states. We want to keep Medical City’s 22 facilities in North Texas in our provider networks.

While we continue to negotiate in good faith, we are unable to make much progress. To date, Medical City is unwilling to accept our reasonable offers to remain in BCBSTX networks. Medical City wants to restrict our customers’ ability to design health plans based on cost and quality. Additionally, Medical City continues to demand unreasonably high rate increases that would burden our members with additional, unnecessary costs with no guarantee of better health outcomes. This is unwarranted and unacceptable.

An agreement must be reached by April 1, 2019, or the Medical City facilities will no longer be in our Par Plan, Blue Choice PPO^SM, Blue Essentials HMO^SM, Medicare Advantage PPO^SM or Medicare Advantage HMO^SM provider networks. The Blue Advantage HMO^SM network is not part of this negotiation.

If Medical City leaves our networks, our members will still have access to many in-network hospitals and health care facilities throughout the area. To find them, members can:

Visit our online Provider Finder^® to get up to date listings of in-network providers.
Log in to Blue Access for Members^SM for personalized results based on their health plan and network.
Call the customer service number on their ID card for assistance.

Members being treated for a pregnancy, disability, acute condition or life-threatening illness may have continuity-of-care benefits. This means they may still be able to see their current doctor at Medical City facilities even if these facilities are no longer in network. Benefits for continuity of care are applied based on benefit plans. Members can call the number on their ID card for more information.

Medical City Facilities Affected by Negotiations
Facility	Address	City	County
Medical City Alliance	3101 N. Tarrant Parkway	Fort Worth	Tarrant
Medical City Arlington	3301 Matlock Rd.	Arlington	Tarrant
Medical City Dallas	7777 Forest Ln.	Dallas	Dallas
Medical City Denton	3535 South Interstate 35	Denton	Denton
Medical City Fort Worth	900 Eighth Ave.	Fort Worth	Tarrant
Medical City las Colinas	6800 N. MacArthur Blvd.	Irving	Dallas
Medical City Lewisville	500 W. Main St.	Lewisville	Denton
Medical City McKinney	4500 Medical Center Dr.	McKinney	Collin
Medical City North Hills	4401 Booth Calloway Rd.	N. Richland Hills	Tarrant
Medical City Plano	3901 W. 15th St.	Plano	Collin
Medical City Weatherford	713 E. Anderson St.	Weatherford	Parker
Calloway Creek Surgery Center	4300 City Point Dr., #100	N. Richland Hills	Tarrant
GI Endoscopy of Plano	Building 1, 1600 Coit Rd., #401a	Plano	Collin
Medical City Ambulatory Surgery Center	7777 Forest Ln., C-150	Dallas	Dallas
Medical City Surgery Center Denton	3316 Colorado Blvd.	Denton	Denton
Medical City Surgery Center Ft. Worth	909 9th Ave.	Fort Worth	Tarrant
Medical City Surgery Center Las Colinas	4255 North MacArthur Blvd.	Irving	Dallas
Medical City Surgery Center McKinney	4510 Medical Center Dr., Ste. 150	McKinney	Collin
Medical City Surgery Center Park	12200 Park Central Dr., 3rd Floor	Dallas	Dallas
Surgery Center of Plano	4005 West 15th St.	Plano	Collin
Texas Pediatric Surgery Center	4375 Booth Calloway Rd., #100	N. Richland Hills	Tarrant
Trinity Park Surgery Center	3501 Matlock Rd.	Arlington	Tarrant

For the latest information, visit bcbstx.com/MedicalCity2019. Please contact your BCBSTX representative with any questions or concerns.