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$22,000 per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons
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I read the article and I'm still not understanding why this happens. It gave a lot of examples and said a lot about what the law was trying to do
But why are they getting this much from arbitration and why aren't the surgeons able to do the same?
littlexsparkee
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Here is the distinction:
> They do it by capitalizing on a law intended to protect patients from surprise billing by providers not in their insurance plan. Under the law, those providers can file for arbitration, where they are able to make a case for much higher payments than they could otherwise receive from health plans.