One in Five Insured Patients Was Denied Care Last Year. Hospitals Are Absorbing the Fallout.

Having insurance was supposed to mean a doctor’s recommendation gets covered. For a growing share of Americans, that is not holding up. A fifth of privately insured working-age adults said they or a family member had doctor-recommended care denied in the past year, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s 2025 Affordability Survey. This is the conversation […] The post One in Five Insured Patients Was Denied Care Last Year. Hospitals Are Absorbing the Fallout. appeared first on Becker's H...