"I’m a little uncertain what the...

 ...legal case is here. This is two market actors who are, by their nature, opposed to each other. One is trying to get a lower price and one is trying to get a higher price. They’re going to have disagreements — there are downsides to not having them in-network."

 

— Loren Adler, a health care economist and the associate director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, talked with AIS’s Health Plan Weekly about TeamHealth’s ongoing legal battle with UnitedHealthcare over out-of-network billing disputes.

 

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