Jan 7, 2020 | Blog Post, Market Approach, Private Equity
Last month, a new analysis from Yale University’s Zack Cooper, Hao Nguyen, Nathan Shekita and Fiona Scott Morton zeroed in on some of the out-of-network providers and specialists who have built up a track record of sending surprise medical bills to patients. Not...
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...
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