Aug 21, 2024 | Arbitration, Private Equity
Millions of Americans have received care in a hospital or emergency department since 2022 without receiving a costly surprise medical bill, thanks to the bipartisan No Surprises Act. The law continues to protect patients from surprise bills, but efforts to undermine...
Jun 11, 2024 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing (CASMB) recently submitted comments to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to a request for information (RFI) to better...
Apr 24, 2024 | Arbitration, Private Equity
Policy experts across the political spectrum are sounding the alarm on how private equity (PE) is manipulating the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process under the No Surprises Act (NSA). As a result, concerns are mounting that the now-expansive IDR process...
Apr 4, 2024 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
A new report published in Health Affairs confirms a troubling increase in the number of private equity-acquired physician practices between 2012-2021, raising further concerns about these firms’ penetration at the physician level into local markets and the potential...
Nov 16, 2021 | Blog Post, Private Equity
By Rachel Cohrs VIEW ONLINE “The nation’s largest Catholic hospital system, a sprawling behemoth of more than 140 hospitals called Ascension, is quietly building an unprecedented and strikingly unusual $1 billion private equity operation, using its wealth to invest...
Jun 28, 2021 | Blog Post, Private Equity
As many as 1.5 million privately insured patients who are brought to an emergency room by an ambulance may be at risk of getting a surprise medical bill each year, according to new research published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The research highlights the acute...
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