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The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
The New York Times; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
July 25, 2017
"Early last year, executives at a small hospital ... started using a company called EmCare to staff and run their emergency room.... Although the hospital had negotiated rates for its fees with many major health insurers, the EmCare physicians were not part of those networks.... For a patient needing care with the highest-level billing code, the hospital's previous physicians had been charging $467; EmCare's charged $1,649.... Newport's experience with EmCare, now one of the nation's largest physician-staffing companies for emergency rooms, is part of a pattern."

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