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Don’t Be Fooled By Claims About ‘Fair IDR’
Just when Congress is considering taking decisive action to protect patients from surprise medical bills, should we be surprised that those who stand to benefit from unfairly charging consumers are pushing to keep the status quo? Action4Health is the latest group to...
In New Advertising Campaign, Coalition Mobilizes Patients & Allies Around Push For Surprise Billing Reforms In End-of-Year Legislation
Washington, D.C. – With millions of patients still facing the threat and fear of a surprise medical bill from out-of-network providers, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing launched a new six-figure advertising and advocacy campaign to make sure Congress...
The one word you don’t want to hear during anesthesia: Surprise
In the latest example of surprise medical billing gone very wrong, patients who require anesthesia for elective procedures – from dental fixes to more complex surgeries – often learn days after that they are victims of a surprise bill. According to a recent report...
Air Ambulance Companies Prove The Sky Isn’t The Limit When It Comes to Surprise Billing
How it started: Brookings – High air ambulance charges concentrated in private equity-owned carriers (October 13, 2020) “…rapid growth in air ambulance prices is borne by consumers both through higher insurance premiums and more directly through cost-sharing and...
Op-ed: Surprise Medical Bills Increase Costs for Everyone, Not Just For The People Who Get Them
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. These...
Want to Lower Premiums for Millions of Americans? Ending Surprise Medical Billing Will Do Just That
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...
Kaiser Health News: With No Legal Guardrails for Patients, Ambulances Drive Surprise Medical Billing
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 nurse...
ProPublica: A Doctor Went To His Own Employer For A COVID-19 Antibody Test. It Cost +$10,000.
By Marshall Allen When Dr. Zachary Sussman went to Physicians Premier ER in Austin for a COVID-19 antibody test, he assumed he would get a freebie because he was a doctor for the chain. Instead, the free-standing emergency room charged his insurance company an...
Axios: Hospitals Charge A Lot More When Wall Street Owns Them
By Sam Baker Hospitals owned by private equity firms rake in almost 30% more income than hospitals that aren’t, according to new research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Why it matters: Private equity is gobbling up more and more of the health care...
New York Times: A Hospital Forgot to Bill Her Coronavirus Test. It Cost Her $1,980.
By Sarah Kliff As Congress moves to address one of the most devastating public health crises facing the country, patients, consumers and families continue to be slammed with surprise medical bills related to COVID-19 care and treatment. The latest New York Times piece...