State Rep. Tom Oliverson has made lowering health care costs a top goal in the Legislature, even as the anesthesia conglomerate where he's a partner and investor has been accused of driving them up. The company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, has been under the microscope of the Federal Trade Commission since 2023 for swallowing up smaller clinics and ratcheting up prices. Now it's being blamed for raising insurance premiums for hundreds of thousands of Texas teachers. A top official with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas recently singled out USAP before a legislative committee, where Oliverson is a member, for costing teachers $11 million more per year last year - an outlier even by the standards of America's costly medical system.
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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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