$22,000 per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons

I read the article and I'm still not understanding why this happens. It gave a lot of examples and said a lot about what the law was trying to do But why are they getting this much from arbitration and why aren't the surgeons able to do the same?

Here is the distinction:

> They do it by capitalizing on a law intended to protect patients from surprise billing by providers not in their insurance plan. Under the law, those providers can file for arbitration, where they are able to make a case for much higher payments than they could otherwise receive from health plans.

But why does the arbitrator deem $22k/hour reasonable? What the fuck is happening at that point?

^^^^ yes I feel like this isn't explained. They may as well be saying they're using a law to protect ducks from poachers or something. I'm not seeing the link between the two concepts. Somebody is deciding to give them this payout and they don't say why.

https://archive.is/1DH0u

that loop hole: non-public single payer healthcare.