‘They’ve turned the dial up on denying preauthorizations’: CHS blames payers for volume drop

(By: Alan Condon for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is pointing to two converging forces behind a broad volume decline in the first quarter: aggressive insurer prior authorization denials and macroeconomic anxiety keeping patients out of the hospital. Continue reading here…

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