WHILE AS MANY AS 110,000 metro Atlantans remain stranded in health-care limbo because of a bitter standoff over hospital reimbursement rates that has severed ties between Piedmont Hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, the outlook for the future is more of the same, the head of a major Atlanta employer group predicts.
Similar standoffs will occur until both providers and insurers come to terms with growing consumer demands for price transparency, according to James H. Purcell, president of the Georgia Healthcare Leadership Council.
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