{"id":26115,"date":"2026-06-17T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26115"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:47:44","slug":"the-slow-erosion-of-the-traditional-provider-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26115","title":{"rendered":"The slow erosion of the traditional provider network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ICHRA, reference-based pricing, narrow networks, direct contracting, cash pay \u2014 it seems you can\u2019t escape these terms today in the employer health benefits market. Each is traceable back to the same gradual shift happening among the leverage structures that have defined the payer-provider relationship for decades.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/is-the-traditional-provider-network-still-worth-it-employers-are-starting-to-ask\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/is-the-traditional-provider-network-still-worth-it-employers-are-starting-to-ask\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) ICHRA, reference-based pricing, narrow networks, direct contracting, cash pay \u2014 it seems you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21,200],"tags":[120,385,238,1950],"class_list":["post-26115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-employer-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-provider-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26116,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115\/revisions\/26116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}