On Tenet Healthcare's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, said the Dallas-based system is concerned about the degree of denial activity it is seeing from some health plans.
Here is a look at Tenet's payer mix in 2023.
Payer mix by net patient service revenues for the nine months ended Sept. 30:
Commercial: 70.5%
Medicare: 16.6%
Medicaid: 7.9%
Indemnity/other: 4.2%
Uninsured: 0.8%
Payer mix by admissions for the nine months ended Sept. 30:
Commercial: 67.3%
Medicare: 19.9%
Medicaid: 5%
Charity/uninsured: 4.4%
Indemnity/other: 3.4%