It shirks its payments and now picks on hospitals serving the poor:
The trouble began in 2004 when Oxford agreed to a new contract that increased the rates it paid the hospital, then continued to pay the old rates for more than a year, according to both Jamaica and the New York State Department Center.That cost the hospital tens of millions of dollars, but the loss is minor compared with the harm that an abrupt cancellation of its contract would cause, said David P. Rosen, president of Jamaica and its parent company, MediSys Health Network. “What Oxford did was use a nuclear weapon” in what ought to have been a minor skirmish, he said.
(via The Health Care Blog)
