Jan 14, 2020 | Private Equity
Patients continue to bear the serious financial consequences of surprise medical bills from private equity firms and hospitals. Cynthia Weber Cascio, a patient and former reporter, recounted her own personal experience navigating a hospital maze that ultimately landed...
Jan 10, 2020 | Private Equity
See below highlights from an article published in Kaiser Health News. Read the full article here. “The American Hospital Association, the biggest hospital trade group, says it promotes ‘best practices’ among medical systems to treat patients...
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 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...
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