"TeamHealth and our affiliates are fighting to ensure those clinicians are reimbursed for the quality care they provide and that patients won't receive balance bills driven by United's insatiable need for more profits." TeamHealth said it was the ER doctors' very commitment to never hit patients with balance billing (sometimes called "surprise billing") that "emboldened UnitedHealthcare to kick emergency providers across the country out of network in 2019 and perniciously start lowering their reimbursement rates." At issue in the trial is whether UnitedHealthcare paid the appropriate rate for more than 11,000 claims that arose when TeamHealth clinicians provided emergency care to patients insured through UnitedHealthcare.