Never Pay the First Bill – Webinar with Marshall Allen

Join Total Control Health Plans for a webinar presenting ProPublica investigative reporter Marshall Allen and Author of “Never Pay the First Bill.” Marshall has spent the last 15 years investigating the health care industry and exposing the insidious ways the system preys on vulnerable Americans. Topics will include:

• Fraud

• Price variation

• Impact of auto adjudication

• Overtreatment

About Marshall Allen:

Marshall Allen is a reporter for ProPublica, where he covers the health care industry. He is one of the creators of ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard, which published the complication rates for about 17,000 surgeons who perform eight common elective procedures. Allen’s work has been honored with several journalism awards, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and coming in as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for work at the Las Vegas Sun.

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