Medical staffing company just slashed benefits for doctors, nurses battling COVID-19 OHIO

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17. Their business model is based on dubious billing practices

These national groups are bad news. When they come in to a city, most of the docs choose not to work with them because they don’t treat them well, as evidenced here. The way they make money is by getting out of town docs to come in and work and then charge patients for out of network care, called surprise billing or balance billing. They have been charged and I have settled cases in which they give kickbacks to doctors for inappropriate admissions or transfers. They engage in aggressive billing collection agencies.

Our ER group just fought off an attempt by the hospital to open up the process to a national group; it was so poorly received in our community that they decided to keep our group.

This type of behavior is not a surprise. All of these groups are owned by global investment firms, i.e. hedge funds. Their bottom line is profit.