As of tomorrow, it will have been a year since United Healthcare policyholders found themselves “out of network” with Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS). And there has apparently been little movement in some time in trying to agree on a new contract.
Officials with both the health system and United have not commented on where things stand as the one-year anniversary approached.
NGHS stll has a special website dedicated to the negotiations but as of late Monday night it had not been updated since January – the last posting declaring that negotiations “have ceased.” United Healthcare Negotiations – Northeast Georgia Health System (nghs.com)
For its part, the last communication from United came in December. Network Negotiations with Northeast Georgia Health System | UnitedHealthcare (uhc.com)
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Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.
Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.
He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.
He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.
