Given the financial stresses rampaging through the medical industry, a prominent showdown between a large hospital system and a large insurance company was inevitable. Unless cooler heads prevail, it will occur this summer in Mississippi.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center, based in Jackson, said last week it will stop accepting insurance policies from Blue Cross Blue Shield after June 30. The medical center's CEO said this means UMMC still will accept Blue Cross customers for treatme
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