Are you referring to Tricare, VA, or Medicare?
The going reputation for Medicare among providers is that although it pays less, it's the easiest insurance to deal with for approvals. The government almost never challenges claims.
Tricare is supposedly the worst of both worlds, which is why almost no one takes it. And there isn't the largest cohort of healthcare consumers on it like Medicare.
Private insurance battles are slowly going away as they buy up providers and expand to regional networks. Private practices are an endangered species. The same people are getting a cut of the procedure and insurance payout, so the more the doc runs up the bill, the richer the C-suite gets. This is removing almost all cost reduction pressure from healthcare.
If you go to an UC clinic or ER and ask for the bottom line cash price to get seen for an acute illness, they wouldn't be able to tell you. That's a huge problem. That fear among the public is driving healthcare policy.
