Plano, Texas-based Neuron Shield Partners, a physician group monitoring patients' nervous systems during procedures like spine surgery, sued Medical Practice Solutions, a third-party billing company also in Plano, for allegedly exaggerating the out-of-network payments it could recoup from payers, The Dallas Morning News reports.
In its lawsuit filed Aug. 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Neuron Shield Partners alleged Medical Practice Solutions promised the physicians reimbursements of $50,000 or more for out-of-network claims. However, the physicians claimed Medical Practice Solutions recouped less than $11 million of $190 million the providers billed to insurers since approximately 2015.
Medical Practice Solutions and Neuron Shield Partners did not immediately respond to The Dallas Morning News' request for comment.
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