Becker's Healthcare November 1, 2023
Executives at some of the big for-profit health systems were not shy about discussing “increasingly aggressive behavior” from insurers during recent financial results calls.
“We think it’s excessive and inappropriate,” Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Saum Sutaria, MD, said on the company’s Oct. 30 third quarter earnings call, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha. “And we continue to work on our appropriate documentation, both for us and obviously with Conifer for all of our clients in order to push back on the volume of clinical denials on the basis of having excellent documentation, and we think that’s the right path out of that.” Conifer is the system’s revenue cycle management division.
His comments followed complaints from King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal...
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