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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...
New HHS Report Calls Out Private Equity As Leading Culprit Behind Patients’ Surprise Medical Bills, Calls on Congress to Act
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...
Coalition Statement on Latest Senate COVID-19 Relief Proposal
Washington, D.C. - Following the release of the latest Senate proposal related to COVID-19 relief, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement: "Patients and their families have waited far too long for comprehensive protections...
“Surprise Billing Won’t Go Away Unless Congress Acts” – Coalition Members Reinforce Urgent Need for Congressional Action on Surprise Billing
In a new letter to Congressional leaders, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing urged policymakers to take immediate and comprehensive action to end surprise medical billing as millions of Americans face the looming threat of these bankrupting charges during...