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Mastering Managed Care

Mastering Managed Care

Payer relations insights your training never covered.

One practical article every Tuesday on payer contract negotiation, denial management, and reimbursement. Written by Kevin W. Barron, whose work reaches 8,500+ healthcare finance professionals on LinkedIn.

Latest Articles

Your Payer's Directory Is Wrong. Your Contract Says Nothing About It.

Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

Your Payer's Directory Is Wrong. Your Contract Says Nothing About It.

Why the most-used document in managed care gets the least attention by your contracting team.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Credentialing & Enrollment

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You Don't Have a Contract Portfolio. You Have a Pile.

Sep 1, 2026

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5 min read

You Don't Have a Contract Portfolio. You Have a Pile.

The payer contracts were never the asset. What they add up to is the asset, and until somebody does the math, you're just managing a very well-organized pile of documents.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Healthcare Finance Leadership

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Walking Away Is Not a Strategy. It Is What Happens When You Never Bothered to Build One.

Aug 25, 2026

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5 min read

Walking Away Is Not a Strategy. It Is What Happens When You Never Bothered to Build One.

When the only remedy available contract termination, that is what gets used. Not because it is right, but because it is the only thing left in the drawer.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Payer Mix Strategy

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Your Contract Was Negotiated With a Company. Your Claims Are Being Adjudicated by an Increasingly Intelligent Computer.

Aug 18, 2026

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5 min read

Your Contract Was Negotiated With a Company. Your Claims Are Being Adjudicated by an Increasingly Intelligent Computer.

Your appeal rights were written for a clinician who would read the chart. The denial came back in eleven minutes, so in this case, nobody did.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Revenue Cycle

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The Most Overlooked Contract Enforcement Job in Your Hospital Reports to Nobody Who Negotiates

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

The Most Overlooked Contract Enforcement Job in Your Hospital Reports to Nobody Who Negotiates

Your best enforcement record already exists. It's sitting in a queue on the wrong floor, in front of someone nobody thought to ask.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Revenue Cycle

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The Person Across from You Cannot Say Yes. It's important to know who can.

Aug 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Person Across from You Cannot Say Yes. It's important to know who can.

Your counterpart isn't stalling you. She can't say yes, and nobody in the room is going to tell you that.

Kevin W. Barron
Kevin W. Barron

Payer Contracting

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Mastering Managed Care

One practical article every Tuesday on payer contract negotiation, denial management, and reimbursement. Written by Kevin W. Barron, whose work reaches 8,500+ healthcare finance professionals on LinkedIn.

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