Dec 5, 2019 | Blog Post, Market Approach, Private Equity
Recently, the private equity companies behind the most egregious surprise billing practices have tried to distance themselves from their bankrupting charges. They say they aren’t balance billing patients, but their actions suggest the exact opposite. We’ve been...
Nov 18, 2019 | Blog Post, Market Approach
Three years after the passage of AB 72, California’s surprise billing law has proved that a fair, local, benchmark solution can stop surprise medical bills while improving health care affordability for hardworking families. Recently, the New York Times examined the...
Nov 14, 2019 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Two new polls from Families USA and Arnold Ventures confirm that voters want Congress to end surprise medical billing with reform that lowers healthcare costs for hardworking families. Key highlights from the Families USA poll are included below: More than 4 in 10...
Oct 24, 2019 | Arbitration, Blog Post
A new report from USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy found that New York patients are still exposed to significant charges from out-of-network providers under the state’s arbitration model – underscoring the harmful cost consequences if...
Sep 23, 2019 | Blog Post, Private Equity
There’s no way around it: if Congress gives up on ending surprise medical billing, they’re choosing private equity firms over patients. For private equity-backed physician staffing firms, surprise medical bills aren’t an accident—they’re a key element of the business...
Sep 20, 2019 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Below is an excerpt from Axios Driving the news: 2 new government reports show how arbitration, one of the solutions being considered by Congress, works in theory and in the real world. New York created an arbitration process a few years ago, and doctors on average...
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