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Flashback: NYT Profiles “The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills”
The growing presence of private equity-backed provider and specialty medical groups is becoming an all too common influence in the health system – and one of the leading drivers behind egregious surprise medical bills that bankrupt families across the country.
EmCare, a subsidiary of Envision Healthcare which was taken over by KKR for $10 billion in 2018, has an established track record for balance billing patients after visits to the emergency room. Check out the highlights from the New York Times’s story included below:
- “Early last year, executives at a small hospital an hour north of...
Coalition Statement in Opposition of Arbitration Amendment
Inclusion of Arbitration Provision in Energy & Commerce Legislation Would Be A Hand-Out to Private Equity At Patients’ Expense
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing, whose members include leading organizations representing employers, health insurance providers and health organizations, strongly opposes the inclusion of a fatally flawed arbitration provision as part of the Energy & Commerce Committee’s mark-up of surprise billing legislation. The Coalition’s full statement is included below:
“The last-ditch effort to impose a costly, bureaucratic and ill-designed arbitration provision on millions of Americans strikes at the core problem of surprise medical billing – it’s a...
CBO Score Shows Surprise Billing Benchmark Will Reduce Costs for Everyone
Following today's analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on cost-savings for patients as part of the benchmark provision in the Lower Health Care Costs Act, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement:
“Today’s CBO score shows that a payment benchmark for out-of-network services is the obvious and best approach for millions of families that have faced bankrupting surprise medical bills. The latest CBO analysis finds that the benchmark proposal will lower overall costs for consumers and put an end to unconscionable price-gouging by certain medical providers, and increasingly, Wall Street-backed private equity groups that exploit patients at their most vulnerable."
"By establishing a payment...
Consensus in Washington? How a Payment Benchmark is Bringing Everyone Together
There’s a right way and a wrong way to address surprise medical billing. The right way starts with clear safeguards to protect patients, consumers, employers and taxpayers from exorbitant, price-gouging from out-of-network providers.
Organizations representing consumers, employers and leading policymakers are encouraging policymakers to advance policy reforms – such as a local, market-based benchmark – that would stop discriminatory pricing from bad actors and lower costs for millions of Americans. Importantly, everyone agrees that protecting consumers means avoiding costly, burdensome arbitration proposals that would incentivize price-gouging moving forward. To view the full list, click here.
We “are...
Coalition Statement on H.R. 3630 “No Surprises Act”
Ahead of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce's mark-up of H.R. 3630 "No Surprises Act", the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement: "Out-of-network providers continue to take advantage of patients when they are at their most vulnerable. It’s not just the surprise from out-of-network bills that is unconscionable – it’s also the cost.
...It’s Not Just The Surprise That Hurts Patients, But The Bill: Why Consumers Need A Fair Benchmark Solution
The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing is proud to be one of the strongest voices calling on policymakers to take urgent action to protect patients from unfair and unreasonable surprise medical bills. These egregious charges from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities have been haunting – and hurting – American families for far too long.
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