A survey of more than 500 hospitals and health systems concluded that private payors often refuse, or delay, care to patients who are making legitimate medical claims (bit.ly/4dk524j). Denied claims tend to be for higher-cost treatments, revealing a strategy that lets companies hold onto profits at providers’ and patients’ expense, according to the report.
“Without a doubt, the most challenging part of these denials is how they impede the practice of medicine and