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Rural hospitals question whether they can afford Medicare Advantage contracts

  • Rural hospitals are reassessing their agreements with Medicare Advantage due to financial strain.
  • Lower reimbursement rates from Medicare Advantage plans are impacting rural hospital finances.
  • Brookings Health dropped its Medicare Advantage contracts, while Taylor Health created a team for coverage denials.
  • Carrie Cochran-McClain stated that most rural hospitals cannot take further payment cuts.
  • These changes may reduce local in-network options and increase costs for rural patients.
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Rural hospitals question whether they can afford Medicare Advantage contracts

Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to maintain services and protect patients is to end their contracts with private insurers.

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Healthcare Business Today broke the news in on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
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