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Hartford HealthCare and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced agreement early Saturday on a new contract, ending a seven-week impasse that left tens of thousands of patients in Connecticut with sharply higher health care costs and reduced access to treatment.
The start of the three-year agreement is retroactive to Oct. 1. Negotiations broke down at the end of the previous agreement Sept. 30.
Making the contract retroactive to Oct. 1 allows patients who received out-of-network care from Hartford HealthCare to pay what they would have if the network had been in-network without the disruption.
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