Scrutiny Following Outlier Investigation Prompts Tenet Board Reorganization
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Tenet Healthcare's voluntary adoption of outlier policy changes sparked by recent CMS scrutiny brought about a 79% decrease in hospital outlier payments during the firm's most recent quarter
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