Read The Fine Print: What Does Your Managed Care Agreement Say About ADR?

         
          [Image: Sumerian contract: selling of a field and a house. Shuruppak, ca. 2600 BC, pre-cuneiform script.]

          I just ran across a post by Robin Fisk on her Managed Care Contracting & Provider Payment blog entitled “Getting to Know the Dispute Resolution Provisions in your Payor Contracts.”  Blogging about ADR and healthcare law tends to take me into some interesting territory involving mediation theory, health policy and the latest court decisions.  It\’s always good to read something that brings me back to what most healthcare providers and their lawyers are dealing with on a day to day basis.
          Robin\’s piece concisely identifies and explains what can be in a “standard” ADR provision, and why a provider should care about it.  She accurately notes that many of these provisions are not negotiable, but points out that providers should at least understand what they are in for – and perhaps take those consequences into account when negotiating other provisions of the same agreement.
          The article is an excellent checklist that I recommend to all.  Thanks, Robin!