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Dallas Cuts PPOs to Save $10M | Texas News
Dallas faces major budget cuts and is considering ditching its expensive PPO health plan to save $10 million and avoid even steeper hikes — a move that could spare jobs but worries employees, especially police and firefighters, about losing flexible coverage and facing referral hurdles under new HMO options. City leaders argue other institutions, including Texas universities and the state itself, have already moved away from PPOs for cost control — not because they’re bad, but because they’re unmanageable when anyone can see any specialist without approval. One council member shared a painful…
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