Study documents disparity in payments to hospitals

A comprehensive study documenting a disparity in payments to hospitals in 2010 in Rhode Island lays bare “the legacy of the old way business was done, through confidential negotiations between hospitals and commercial insurance companies,” according to Thomas J. Breen, vice president and chief financial officer at South County Hospital in South Kingstown. More

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