In this episode, Seth Pfaltzgraff, Healthcare Client Partner at Macedon Technologies, and Alex Ginsberg, CEO of Provider Resources, discuss how the No Surprises Act arbitration ecosystem has matured over five years and what stakeholders have learned about managing dispute volume…
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