Healthcare middlemen aggregate purchasing power, streamline transactions and manage claims, yet their operations also affect transparency, competition and the cost of goods and services. Employers rely on middlemen to navigate health insurance benefits and claims processing, providers depend on them to manage supply chains and revenue cycles, while patients experience the downstream consequences of middlemen in the form of out-of-pocket costs, network access and treatment availability. Collectively, healthcare middlemen influence hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare transactions annually, making them a powerful – and increasingly scrutinized – component of the health economy.
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Source: https://www.trillianthealth.com/market-research/studies/middlemen-in-the-u.s.-healthcare-system-shaping-costs-and-complexity