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The arbitration cash station

Thumỹ Phan for STAT

The No Surprises Act created an arbitration process to settle out-of-network bills between health insurers and providers. That process has become so lucrative for the arbitrators that decide winners and losers that some of them now have profit margins that would make tech giants blush, my colleague Tara Bannow reports in a new story.

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