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Los Angeles Times
Business
Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik: This company made billions by surprise-billing helpless ER patients. Then justice arrived

Some businesses deserve sympathy when they land in bankruptcy. Then there's Envision.

The Tennessee company prospered as a provider of medical staff to hospitals around the country. It concentrated on emergency physicians, anesthesiologists and radiologists for a simple reason: Their patients typically had no ability to pick and choose among these doctors when they need care.

Waiting to be seen at the emergency room or already laid out on an operating table, the patients weren't in a position to ask whether the doctor was in their insurance plan's network.

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