28% of commercially insured emergency ground ambulance transports during the period 2014–17 resulted in a potential surprise bill
Private equity firm-owned air ambulance services charge markedly higher rates than other types of providers of the same service, according to new research.
The GAO report underscores three key themes: misleading information is shockingly prevalent, a wide variety of junk plans are sold and may frequently be bundled together, and fixed indemnity plans appear to play a large role.
Fixed indemnity products are offered in problematic and nontransparent ways in the individual market for health insurance and by employers offering coverage to their workers.
Schaeffer Initiative researchers investigate marketing claims made by ACA non-compliant health insurers about coverage amid the pandemic.