Surprise Billing 2.0

Fulcrum Strategies, analyzing changes in health care and how they affect you

Congress is, to hopefully no one's surprise, overreacting. They're proposing legislation to limit the ability of hospital-based physicians to make a living, and decide for themselves the kinds of business relationships they enter, by passing a law forcing them to accept an arbitrary standard set by entities who stand to make a profit by doing it. It's like paving your entire yard because you have a few weeds. Actually, it's like having a government agent walk up to your door, tell you you have a weed problem, then inform you they're going to pave your yard whether you like it or not. Blanket surprise-billing legislation is not the answer to the anecdotal stories about big bills from non-contracted practices. Ron discusses some of the reality of Surprise Billing and what it could mean for physicians, and those of us who rely upon them.