According to one congressional aide close to the negotiations, "it's not a matter of tweaks to get providers to stand down, it's that provider groups don't want to see a solution here. They want the status quo."
Congress may be attempting to take action against surprise bills that prove to be the financial undoing of so many consumers, but not if physician groups have anything to say about it.
And they're saying as much as they can, as loudly as they can, according to a report in Modern Healthcare. In fact, according to congressional staff, physician groups are willing to make the entire effort against surprise billing go down in flames rather than find themselves on the receiving end of efforts to curtail how much money they can make.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
