Members of the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing, which represent accountable care providers, leading employer groups, and health insurance providers and the tens of millions of people they employ and serve each day, support meaningful solutions to end surprise medical billing that would:

• • Protect patients and families from surprise medical bills sent by out-of-network providers;
  • Maintain fair and equitable payments for providers with a benchmark standard based on local, competitive market-based rates; and
  • Help reduce consumers’ health insurance premiums and taxpayers’ costs by avoiding an arbitration process that adds unnecessary cost, delay, and bureaucracy to the health system, and is particularly harmful for smaller companies.

The growing presence of private equity-backed providers 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. Out-of-network providers backed by private equity firms continue to exploit a market loophole that allow them to charge exorbitant rates at patients’ expense. Click Learn More below to view the Coalition’s latest advertising on the harmful tactics from private equity firms and why this practice needs to stop for good.