Doctor staffing firms Envision Healthcare and TeamHealth backed a dark money campaign to kill legislation that would make it harder for hospitals and doctors to spring massive, unexpected bills on patients
A group calling itself Doctor Patient Unity has spent nearly $30 million on a campaign designed to kill the leading congressional legislation that would make it harder for hospitals and doctors to spring massive, unexpected bills on patients.
in billing disputes to patients. Both say that's no longer the case and that they support a federal solution to surprise billings. But they don't like the congressional panels' approach, which they call government "rate-setting." Their involvement was first reported by the New York Times. Greg Blair, a spokesperson for Doctor Patient Unity, also confirmed the two companies are funders, and in a statement said the pair represent tens of thousands of doctors who support an alternate approach to ending surprise medical bills that's been enacted in New York and Texas. Those states both use independent mediators to settle payment disputes — an approach known as arbitration — not a government-set pay scale.
Envision spokesperson Aliese Polk said the company “support[s] an independent dispute resolution process that removes patients from the middle.”vote on the floor of either chamber of Congress. Two additional House committees are working on their own surprise billing legislation, muddling prospects for compromise by year's end.
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