JAMA: negative effect of in-network reimbursement when Surprise Billing Legislation is introduced
Researchers recently published an article in JAMA showing that in-network reimbursement rates dropped with the introduction of surprise...
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- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Conflict of Interest in Pivotal Surprise Billing "study"
On August 10, 2021 an earth-shattering article was published in The Intercept by Rose Adams, "UnitedHealthcare Guided Yale's...
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- Aug 12, 2020
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Dr. Amy Cho Talks Surprise Billing with Doctor Money Matters
Last year, Dr. Amy Cho was featured in an excellent podcast discussing Surprise Medical Billing and why it's so important to get the...
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- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
GEM in the News
Dr. Damian Caraballo and other physicians spoke with Bloomberg news about the mental health toll COVID-19 is taking on healthcare...
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- Apr 8, 2020
- 4 min
More Medical Innovation, Less Regulation. GrassrootsEM Board featured in CITY JOURNAL.
Four practicing emergency physicians describe some practical fixes to make treating Covid-19 patients safer and more effective ....
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- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
How the Federal Government can Prepare for COVID-19 from Frontline Experts
Drs. Cho, Pappadakis, Tassey and Jha An urgent dispatch from the COVID-19 frontlines "We are physicians. We are experts at triaging and...
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- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Dr. Amy Cho on CNN
Dr. Cho was featured on CNN Replay where she spoke with Anderson Cooper about the challenges facing healthcare workers and public...
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- Mar 30, 2020
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Dr. Caraballo on CNN New Day
Dr. Caraballo discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, testing availability, and what it's like to work on the frontlines, after being...
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- Mar 28, 2020
- 1 min
Dr. Caraballo speaks out on Lack of COVID-19 testing
"“It’s pretty frustrating that we have celebrities and basketball players getting tested the same day,” said Dr. Damian Caraballo, a...
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- Jan 31, 2020
- 1 min
Inaugural Newsletter
Check out GrassrootsEM newsletter for a Surprise Medical Bill legislative update, ways to get involved, including links to an upcoming...
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- Jan 21, 2020
- 2 min
Doctors Aren't the Enemy
Christopher Colvin Emergency Physician Dear America, we’re sorry. We’ve fought so hard for you. We gave up the best decades of our lives...
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- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Tell Congress to Solve Surprise Billing the Right Way - Protect Emergency Medical Care
Sign the Petition at Change.org. Congress plans to use an even worse form of the Pallone/Walden bill to solve Surprise Billing. It's...
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- Dec 8, 2019
- 1 min
Record Rural Hospital Closures, Congress' Benchmarking solution to Surprise Billing will Close More
Benchmarking will only lead to further health care consolidation, which has been shown to contribute to higher health care costs;...
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- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Rep Morelle (D-NY) Speaks Out the Danger of Benchmarking to Solve Surprise Billing
Rep. Morelle (D-NY) writes in The Hill about New York State's successful solution to surprise billing using IDR and how benchmarking will...
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- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Surprise Bills Often Result From High Deductible Insurance Plans with High Out-of-Pocket Limits
Surprise Medical Bills are often used to describe any bill a patient receives unexpectedly for health care services. Out-of-network bills...
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- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
NY State Releases a Report on Their Successful Balanced Billing Legislation
"[T]he OON Law has saved consumers over $400,000,000 from the time it was implemented in March of 2015 through the end of 2018 with...
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- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
Over 100 Medical Organizations Let Congress Know: Benchmarking will Harm Patients
In a letter to Congress, the AMA and 110 medical organizations express how rate-setting will result in decreased access and quality of...
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- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Argument that Physician Pay "is too damn high!"
Debunking Myths: Physicians' Incomes Are Too High and They Are the Cause of Rising Health Care Costs Forbes Dr. Uwe Reinhardt understood...
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- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
Grassroots Emergency Medicine Makes a Debut!
Grassroots Emergency Medicine (GEM) has launched! Follow us on Twitter or Join the pack on Facebook. If you are an emergency physician...
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- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Dr. Anish Koka Summarizes Surprise Billing
Guerilla Billing – Missing the Gorilla in the Midst The Health Care Blog "Interestingly, the health policy community has taken the tack...
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