Removal of Springfield Clinic from its network constituted a “material change”
Gov. JB Pritzker’s state insurance department has fined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois $339,000 for failing to notify the state last year about the removal of Springfield Clinic as an in-network provider. The Illinois Department of Insurance continues to evaluate whether the Chicago-based insurer’s downstate preferred-provider network is adequate to meet patients’ needs after Blue Cross removed the clinic’s more than 600 doctors, advanced-practice nurses and physician assistants as part of a contract dispute with the Springfield-based, for-profit clinic.…