Humana now is ‘in-network’ in Fayette
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 6:21pm
Submitted by Letters to the ...
Submitted by Letters to the ...
Fayette County community, we at Piedmont Healthcare are happy to announce some good news for Fayette County seniors, and others in the surrounding area, who wish to use Piedmont Fayette Hospital on an “in network” basis.
Piedmont Healthcare has signed an agreement with Humana to participate in its Medicare Advantage plans. This means seniors who enroll in Humana’s Medicare Advantage plans (HMO, PPO, POS and PFFS) will be considered “in network” for 2012 when they use Piedmont Fayette Hospital, as well as Piedmont’s other three hospitals in Newnan, Atlanta and Jasper.
In addition, physicians of the Piedmont Physicians Group and Piedmont Heart Institute Physicians also will participate in Humana’s Medicare Advantage plans. Of course, Piedmont continues to accept other Medicare Advantage plans that offer “out of network” benefits, as well as Medicare and Medicare Supplement plans.
Seniors who are considering their insurance options should act soon. As you may know, Medicare Advantage open enrollment for 2012 is currently taking place and will end on Dec. 7.
At Piedmont, we pride ourselves on providing top-notch, quality care to all of the communities we serve. We also try to make that care as affordable as possible. So, we are pleased that seniors are now able to benefit from our new agreement with Humana.
We thank you for the privilege of caring for you!
W. Darrell Cutts
President and CEO
Piedmont Fayette Hospital
Fayetteville, Ga.
Sat, 11/12/2011 - 2:57am
#2
All Fine and Dandy Piedmont-Fayette...
but since when does this "news" qualify as a Letter to the Editor? Buy some space in the paper because this is simply a way an advertisement without the cost.
CAL, this is not an opinion!
Sat, 11/12/2011 - 10:37am
#3
Piedmont Fayette report was news
If the Piedmont Fayette Hospital president had started his letter with the words, “In response to Ms. Jeanie Fusaro’s letter to the editor published last week and to the numerous phone calls from local seniors that have since swamped our personnel…,” the information he provided afterwards would have been one letter to the editor responding to another.
There’s no point in pontificating about buying ads in newspapers to announce items of public interest. Of course, the Piedmont group knows how to buy full-page ads in the Atlanta paper whenever it engages in disputes with insurance companies and threatens to keep large groups like our Fayette county employees out of network, but these things usually get reported in separate articles of the kind our local papers don’t have the staff to develop.
The hospital did the right thing, this time, by keeping local seniors informed of how it is prepared to treat them. The paper could have chosen to turn the announcement into an article, but it doesn’t matter.
Sat, 11/12/2011 - 1:53pm
#4
loanarragner... point taken
I had forgotten about the original editorial and you put the pieces together for me. Now it makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
UNFORTUNATELY Georgia is one of the few states that does not require reporting and tracking of hospital born Illnesses some of which are not curable or even treatable. One way you could show your thanks would be to start tracking these incidences and then taking aggressive counter measures
Regards from someone who now has to live with one of these diseases