Dec 16, 2020 | Blog Post, Market Approach, Press Release
In a new letter to Congressional leadership, members of the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing urged policymakers to prioritize critical “changes to the current bill that would lower costs for consumers, employers and taxpayers.” Highlights are included below:...
Dec 8, 2020 | Blog Post, Market Approach
In a new national poll, nearly 9 in 10 voters support Congress passing legislation that would protect patients from surprise medical bills. More than three-quarters (79%) support policy solutions that would ban all providers from sending a surprise bill and align...
Dec 3, 2020 | Arbitration, Market Approach, Press Release
Washington, D.C. – After private equity firms blocked critical surprise billing protections for American patients last year, the overwhelming majority of voters — roughly 90 percent — want Congress to pass legislation that would protect more than 100 million Americans...
Oct 6, 2020 | Market Approach
By Erin Duffy, Erin Trish, Loren Adler, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy “Too often after a hospital procedure or visit to an emergency room patients get hit with unexpected bills from out-of-network doctors they had no role in choosing....
Sep 23, 2020 | Blog Post, Market Approach
When out-of-network providers and private equity firms take advantage of patients, we all pay the price. Now, new research from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy shows clearly how this exploitative practice ends up costing the country billions...
Sep 15, 2020 | Arbitration, Market Approach
By Laura Ungar “School librarian Amanda Brasfield bent over to grab her lunch from a small refrigerator and felt her heart begin to race. Even after lying on her office floor and closing her eyes, her heart kept pounding and fluttering in her chest. The school...
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