In a recent Chief Healthcare Executive article, Thompson Coburn Health Care attorneys Mackenzie Wallace and Ashton Dietrich examined the growing pressures rural hospitals face when negotiating with Medicare Advantage and commercial payers.
The article outlines key considerations surrounding network adequacy requirements, reimbursement disputes, payer market power, and state-level protections that can impact a hospital’s financial stability and ability to serve its community.
“Payer disputes are no longer isolated contracting issues; they are enterprise-level risk decisions,” they wrote, underscoring the broader operational and access-to-care implications for rural healthcare providers.
Read the full article here.
