Doctor Patient Unity

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| purpose = oppose laws which would stop surprise billing in the US medical system and cutting pay and benefits for emergency room doctors and other medical workers

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Doctor Patient Unity is corporate lobbying front group funded by private equity firm owned doctor staffing companies to oppose laws to stop surprise billing in the US medical system.{{Cite news|last1=Sanger-Katz|first1=Margot|last2=Creswell|first2=Julie|last3=Abelson|first3=Reed|date=2019-09-13|title=Mystery Solved: Private-Equity-Backed Firms Are Behind Ad Blitz on 'Surprise Billing'|language=en-US|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/upshot/surprise-billing-laws-ad-spending-doctor-patient-unity.html|access-date=2020-05-08|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors' Pay While Spending Millions…|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/medical-staffing-companies-cut-doctors-pay-while-spending-millions-on-political-ads|last=Arnsdorf|first=Isaac|website=ProPublica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-09}} The group is funded by Blackstone (owner of TeamHealth) and KKR (owner of Envision Healthcare) and has spent more than $57 million on advertisements opposing the legislation to restrict surprise billing, at the same time cutting pay and benefits for emergency room doctors and other medical workers.{{Cite web|title='Surprise' billing 101: Inside Congress' epic fight over out-of-network billing|url=http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/11/18/surprise-bills|website=www.advisory.com|access-date=2020-05-08}}{{Cite web|title=Mystery Group Puts $13 Million Into Ads on Surprise Health Bills (2)|url=https://about.bgov.com/news/mystery-group-puts-13-million-into-ads-on-surprise-health-bills/|website=Bloomberg Government|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-09}} The primary aim of the group is to stop The House Energy and Commerce Committee's No Surprises Act (HR 3630) and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's Lower Health Care Costs Act (S 1895).{{Cite news|last=Markay|first=Sam Brodey{{!}}Lachlan|date=2019-09-06|title=Congress is Poised to Stop Surprise Medical Billing. Now a Shady Interest Group is Trying to Tank It.|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/surprise-medical-bill-shady-interest-group-tries-to-kill-last-bipartisan-health-care-bill|access-date=2020-05-08}} The group's tactics include targeting specific lawmakers who are standing for reelection in 2020 including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.),{{cite web |last1=McLeod |first1=Paul |title=Here's How Private Equity Firms Targeted Republican Sen. John Cornyn With Dark Money To Preserve Surprise Medical Billing |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/john-cornyn-surprise-medical-billing-ads |website=Buzzfeed News}} Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and fearmongering.{{Cite web|title=Health groups backed dark money campaign to sink 'surprise' billing fix|url=https://politi.co/30aqiTi|last=Roubein|first=Rachel|website=POLITICO|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}{{Cite web|title=Secretive front group targets vulnerable senators with $2.3M ad blitz over surprise medical bills fight|url=https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/08/secretive-front-group-targets-vulnerable-senators-with-2-3-million-ad-blitz-over-surprise-medical-bills-fight/ |date=2019-08-06| publisher=OpenSecrets}}