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Anthem's New Agreements Announced
Carrier Updates
Thursday, July 17 2025
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Anthem is pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement with Shasta Regional Medical Center located in Shasta County. As you recall, Shasta Regional Medical Center’s commercial Contracting Hospital Agreement with Anthem Blue Cross was terminated effective January 1, 2025.

With this new contract agreement, Shasta Regional Medical Center returns to Anthem’s Network effective August 1, 2025.

Anthem also announced that MemorialCare has rescinded its notice of termination for acute care hospitals, ASCs, and Memorial Select Health Plan-HMO. In addition, we have come to agreement for MemorialCare HMO Medical Groups as well as their PPO agreement. The below-referenced Commercial contracts remain in full force and effect while they finalize the multi-year renewal agreements, effective as noted:

Hospitals & ASCs renewal effective 8/1/2025
General Acute Care Hospitals
•    050603-Saddleback Memorial Medical Center
•    050485-Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
•    053309-Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital
•    050678-Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center

Ambulatory Surgical Centers
•    051134-Digestive Disease Center
•    0050WX-Memorialcare Outpatient Surgical Center Long Bch
•    AS1923-Memorialcare Surgical Center at Orange Coast
•    AS1854-MemorialCare Surgical Center Laguna Niguel
•    AS1616-MemorialCare Surgical Center Laguna Woods
•    AS1846-MemorialCare Surgical Center Saddleback

Other Entity Renewals, as noted

HMO Medical Groups including Covered CA-effective 9/1/2025
•    0U1 - Memorial Select Health Plan

HMO Medical Groups including Covered CA-effective 1/1/2026
•    0DJ -  Edinger Medical Group IPA
•    0V5 -  MemorialCare/Costa Mesa
•    0ZR -  GNP MemorialCare Newport Beach
•    5KW - GNP-MemorialCare

PPO Medical Groups – effective 1/1/2026
•    MemorialCare Medical Foundation

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