Plans and brokers also struggle to optimize plan and network design for high-quality care, as there’s no way to tune rates to the true cost of care. On top of everything else, negotiation is a ...

But even if the final design plan changes, Escobar said, commercial operations are going to have to make other plans during the multi-year construction process.

ABSTRACT. Objectives: To develop an index using publicly available data to measure progress in addressing health care disparities. Study Design: Given inherent socioeconomic differences between ...