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New HHS Report Calls Out Private Equity As Leading Culprit Behind Patients’ Surprise Medical Bills, Calls on Congress to Act

Jul 29, 2020 | Blog Post, Private Equity

A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides the strongest call yet for Congress to finally take action on surprise medical bills, calling the practice “a market failure that will not correct itself.” Today, millions of patients are...

Private Equity Firms Think They Have Won The Surprise Billing Battle – Why That Is A Bad Thing For Patients

Jul 15, 2020 | Blog Post, Private Equity

Private Equity Firms Think They Have Won The Surprise Billing Battle – Why That Is A Bad Thing For Patients At a time when millions of patients are still at risk of bankrupting surprise medical bills, those most responsible for these charges appear to be taking a...

Bloomberg: Private Equity Lands Billion-Dollar Backdoor Hospital Bailout

Jun 2, 2020 | Blog Post, Private Equity

Congress has yet to take action to protect patients from surprise medical bills – leaving millions of Americans at the whim of private equity firms and out-of-network providers. Instead, the federal government has approved massive taxpayer-funded bailouts for...

Coalition Statement on House HEROES Legislation

May 12, 2020 | Press Release, Private Equity

Washington, DC – Following the release of the latest COVID relief legislation from the U.S. House of Representatives, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement: “Establishing guardrails to prevent surprise medical bills from...

ProPublica: Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors’ Pay While Spending Millions on Political Ads

Apr 21, 2020 | Private Equity

Below are excerpts from ProPublica. “Private equity-backed medical staffing companies that have cut doctors’ pay are continuing to spend millions on political ads, according to Federal Communications Commission disclosures.” “The ads amount to $2.2...

Kaiser Health News: In Fine Print, HHS Appears To Ban All Surprise Billing During The Pandemic

Apr 17, 2020 | Private Equity

Below are excerpts from Kaiser Health News. Read the full story here. “Federal officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ practices have included this stipulation: They cannot foist surprise medical bills on COVID-19 patients. But...
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