NPR October 17, 2023
Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold-mining town that he describes as “out here in the middle of nowhere.”
When several representatives from private health insurance companies called on him a few years ago to offer Medicare Advantage plan contracts so their enrollees could use his hospital, Bleak sent them away.
“Come back to the table with a better offer,” the chief executive recalls telling them. The representatives haven’t returned.
Battle Mountain is in north-central Nevada, about a three-hour drive from Reno and four hours from Salt Lake City. Bleak (whose name is pronounced “Blake”) suspects insurance companies simply haven’t enrolled enough of the area’s seniors to need his hospital in their...
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