Weatherhead's J.B. Silvers shares thoughts on Summa Health's move to stop scheduling out-of-network patients

Summa Health will no longer schedule patients with out-of-network insurance
WEWS: J.B. Silvers, professor emeritus at Weatherhead School of Management, said Summa’s move to stop scheduling out-of-network patients is financially driven and unsurprising. He warned Medicaid cuts and rising Affordable Care Act costs will worsen pressures, leaving hospitals “scared—and for good reason” and predicted more systems could adopt similar policies.