CAP President Donald S. Karcher, MD, FCAP, and CAP Governor A. Joe Saad, MD, FCAP, discuss CAP’s private payor report. "Payers are in the driver’s seat," Saad's point continued. "They can challenge us, and if we don’t like it, they don’t mind if we go out of network, which gives them the upper hand when it comes to payment. They know it’s time-consuming, laborious, and costly if we want to contest it, go through the negotiation period, and go to arbitration. They have deeper pockets and figure they can outlast us.”
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