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"No surprises" apparently may have some surprises: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/28/1159786...

Insurer tries to get away with: the provider is not in network, but not strictly out of network (because they know that would be covered by the law), so they call them "participating", a 50% coinsurance applies and patient owes 121K.

(Resolved in patient's favor after state government got involved and media coverage about it).




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