Here’s A Listing of San Antonio Providers Who Take RBP Patients

San Antonio is a mature Reference Based Pricing market. It all started in 2007 when a local employer found there was a better way to finance health care.

Reimbursement averages 120% of Medicare. Two San Antonio hospital systems at 130% and 170% respectively (no outliers).

In 2007 things were a lot different. Hospitals pushed back, threatening patients with all kinds of consequences. Their arrogance was off the charts. Never before had they been challenged and they didn’t like it.

Like caged animals, they fought back tooth and nail in every way they could. Plan sponsors with backbone stayed the course, challenging the adhesive mindset of aging hospital administrators welded to the past.

My how things have changed.

Here’s a list of RBP providers in San Antonio who have entered enter a direct agreement with a midsize group that has been on a RBP plan for over a decade: