Healthcare Economist September 11, 2023
That may be the case. Modern Healthcare reports:
Last month, St. Charles Health System threatened to cut ties with all Medicare Advantage plans next year, a move that would leave an estimated 26,000 local beneficiaries without access to a hospital less than 100 miles away.
“The reality of Medicare Advantage in central Oregon is that it just hasn’t lived up to the promise,” St. Charles Health System CEO Dr. Steve Gordon wrote in a news release at the time. “A program intended to promote seamless and higher quality care has instead become a fragmented patchwork of administrative delays, denials and frustrations,” he said. The Bend-based nonprofit company declined to make an executive available for an interview.
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