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Large hospital systems with massive staffs can dedicate time and power to fighting claims denials, the American Hospital Association says. In response, some smaller techniques are starting to reject Medicare Advantage plans. This summer time, Jason Merkley, chief executive of Brookings Health System, a extremely rated nonprofit hospital chain in South Dakota, stopped accepting the plans due to protection denials and pre-authorization issues. Only a small share of the system’s patients had Medicare Advantage plans, Merkley told NBC News, but the effort required to battle the denials was considerable. Meanwhile, CEOs of rural nonprofit hospital techniques in Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi,…
