"These price declines show that state surprise billing laws both directly lower out-of-network prices and indirectly lower in-network prices, providing evidence that surprise billing legislation may have changed provider-payer negotiating dynamics," noted La Forgia. Currently, the interim final rule o...
President Trump urged Congress to put an end to surprise medical bills on Thursday, outlining from the White House's Roosevelt Room a list of priorities the administration hopes will provide the basis for bipartisan legislation to solve the problem. Surprise medical billing happens when a patient i...
Arbitration is the solution to surprise-billing problems, not rate-setting Featured Articles Current proposed surprise medical billing legislation will give insurers sole power to terminate contracts with hospital-based physicians and dictate new payment rates. Not only is th...
New legislation to end surprise medical billing could spell far-reaching changes for the U.S. air ambulance industry, slashing profits associated with exorbitant balance bills and laying the groundwork for future reimbursement policies that incentivize safety and quality. Several sections in the No Su...
However, the legislation does not affect ground ambulances, instead calling for more study of their billing. This means that patients are still responsible for any ground ambulance charges, even if they are higher than their in-network rates. The new changes resulted from Trump-era bipartisan ...
— HOWEVER, ground ambulance services will not face the same restrictions, and the legislation only calls for more study of their billing practices.” We shouldn’t have to depend on people knowing minutia about insurance regulation in order for them to get care or not be unfairly billed,...
Employers, Health Plans Oppose Legislation to Make Arbitration More Costly for Consumers Nov 13, 2024|Arbitration,Blog Post,Private Equity While the No Surprises Act took a critical step in banning unfair, egregious surprise medical bills, certain private equity-backed providers continue to abuse and...
some of the proposed legislation in both the House and Senate would try to end the practice of surprise billing by using a benchmark approach to determine and set physician reimbursement rates for out-of-network care. While this in theory would protect patients from surprise billing, ...
Air ambulance companies have fought surprise billing legislation in court, using the federal Airline Deregulation Act passed in 1978, which was actually designed to increase competition in commercial airline travel. Air ambulance companies operating on a for-profit basis have proliferated across the count...
Compromise health care legislation gives consumers a kind of pandemic bonus, but leaves one tough issue for next year.