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Physician staffing companies remain under pressure apropos of surprise billing — despite passage of the federal No Surprises Act — with the most recent example a new class action lawsuit filed June 7 in Nashville against Knoxville-based TeamHealth.

North Carolina-based car dealer Gerry Wood Auto Group filed an overbilling complaint in Middle Tennessee federal court, alleging that TeamHealth “on various occasions” inflated the charges for Gerry Wood employees enrolled in the auto group’s self-funded health care plan. The suit outlines two alleged patterns of upcoding chargeable services consistent with established legal precedents for insurance claims billing fraud.