{"id":15549,"date":"2026-09-16T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15549"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:57:00","slug":"as-ma-denial-rates-rise-hospitals-are-betting-on-traditional-medicare-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15549","title":{"rendered":"As MA Denial Rates Rise, Hospitals Are Betting on Traditional Medicare Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/09\/medicare-hospitial-reimbursement\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Medicare Advantage denial rates climb, health systems are dropping plans and steering patients back to traditional Medicare. Pearl Health CEO Michael Kopko thinks the original Medicare Advantage bargain has broken down \u2014 and that the model may never have been as efficient as policymakers assumed.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/09\/medicare-hospitial-reimbursement\/\">As MA Denial Rates Rise, Hospitals Are Betting on Traditional Medicare Instead<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Medicare Advantage denial rates climb, health systems are dropping plans and steering patients back to traditional Medicare. Pearl Health CEO Michael Kopko thinks the original Medicare Advantage bargain has broken down \u2014 and that the model may never have been as efficient as policymakers assumed. The post As MA Denial Rates Rise, Hospitals Are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}