{"id":15200,"date":"2020-02-12T07:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15200"},"modified":"2020-02-12T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:10:54","slug":"when-your-doctor-is-also-a-lobbyist-inside-the-war-over-surprise-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15200","title":{"rendered":"When Your Doctor Is Also A Lobbyist: Inside The War Over Surprise Medical Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Rachana Pradhan for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

When Carol Pak-Teng, an emergency room doctor in New Jersey, hosted a fundraiser in December for Democratic freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski, her guests, mostly doctors, were pleased when she steered the conversation to surprise medical bills.<\/p>\n

This was a chance to send a message to Washington that any surprise billing legislation should protect doctors\u2019 incomes in their battle over payments with insurers. Lawmakers are grappling over several approaches to curtail the practice, which can leave patients on the hook for huge medical bills, even if they have insurance.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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