Jan 8, 2020 | Market Approach, Private Equity
With millions of Americans still facing the threat of bankrupting surprise medical bills, Bloomberg profiles the onslaught of private equity money in 2019 that stalled the hope of a solution for consumers. The article notes that, “No advocacy group spent more than...
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 10, 2019 | Arbitration, Market Approach, Private Equity
Below, see highlights from an op-ed published in the Boston Globe: Ending surprise billing: A moral test for physicians by Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH. To read the full piece, click here. “Most people, quite reasonably, think that if the hospital is...
Dec 8, 2019 | Market Approach, Press Release
Following the announcement on a new surprise medical billing proposal, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement: “Consumers deserve solutions that protect them from surprise medical bills while keeping costs low. The Congress and...
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...
Dec 2, 2019 | Market Approach, Private Equity
While you were preparing your Thanksgiving feast, ProPublica published a harrowingnew investigation about aggressive debt collection lawsuits from TeamHealth against low-income patients struggling to pay staggering bills. Since 2017, Southeastern Emergency Physicians,...
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